Bair Hugger Bellwether Trial to Begin by April 2018
Bair Hugger Bellwether Trial to Begin by April 2018
Introduction
A federal judge presiding over the Bair Hugger MDL No. 2666 in the District of Minnesota ordered two Bair Hugger warming blanket lawsuits to be ready for the bellwether trials on and after April 30, 2018. Plaintiffs of nearly 3,500 lawsuits allege they suffered from the use of Bair Hugger system used during their knee and hip replacement surgeries as contaminants had a chance to enter the patients' open surgical wounds and exposed them to potentially deadly infections, such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), resistant to antibiotics.
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