3M Bair Hugger Temperature Monitoring Control Unit
A core temperature monitoring control unit that tracks patient temperature continuously across care phases using one sensor, without reapplication.
The 3M Bair Hugger Temperature Monitoring Control Unit is used by clinicians to help maintain patient normothermia by delivering consistent core temperature monitoring from the start of a procedure through to recovery. The system is built around a single sensor that stays with the patient across all phases of care, in both surgical and non-surgical clinical settings, without needing to be reapplied as the patient moves between preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative areas.
This continuity is intended to simplify temperature monitoring workflows for clinical staff, since a new sensor does not need to be placed and re-calibrated at each transition point in the patient's care pathway, while also reducing the variability that can come from switching monitoring devices partway through a case.
The control unit itself displays and manages the readings from the sensor, giving anaesthetists, theatre nurses and recovery staff a continuous view of the patient's core temperature to support decisions about active warming during the procedure. Hospitals running a structured normothermia programme, particularly those focused on reducing the incidence of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia, use systems like this to standardise temperature monitoring across the full surgical patient journey.
