3M Co. is battling lawsuits from more than 50 orthopedic surgery patients who say the company's popular "Bair Hugger" warming blankets, used to keep people warm before surgery, circulated ...

With approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Bair Hugger's rapid, widespread adaptation made Augustine wealthy. In 2003, he left his company, Arizant Healthcare. In 2010, 3M ...

A steady flow of warm air is the Bair Hugger’s key selling point, as the blanket-like product is designed to keep hospital patients warm during surgical procedures.But a civil lawsuit filed in ...

Scott Augustine, who invented the Bair Hugger, which warms patients during operations, says the machine shouldn’t be used on those receiving implant devices like artificial heart valves.

3M staunchly defends the safety of the Bair Hugger, a device invented in Minnesota that has grown into a dominant product in the $1.5 billion market for devices that are used in hospitals to ...

3M has won defense verdicts in the two Bair Hugger cases that have gone to trial, a Missouri state court case last October and a 2018 bellwether trial in the MDL. 3M’s MDL counsel from Norton ...

Maplewood-based 3M said Thursday that a federal court has dismissed all lawsuits against the company’s Bair Hugger system, used to warm patients before, during and after surgery. The decision ...

Petitta was one of more than 5,000 people who brought claims in a multidistrict litigation before U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen in Minneapolis over the Bair Hugger.

If adopted, Bair Hugger would replace existing methods of measuring temperature perioperatively. Significant changes to current facilities or infrastructure are unlikely to be needed. By accurately ...