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PressureGuard Renew

Cover

The bacteriostatic top fabric is fire resistant, fluidproof, tear resistant, cleanable, and replaceable. The pleated design allows full integration with the mattress’s Geo-Matt style shear-relieving surface while minimizing hammocking.

Foam Topper

The patented Geo-Matt® style foam topper is a high density, medical grade foam. The unique geometric design consists of over 800 individual cells, each of which acts individually to redistribute pressure, to reduce heat and moisture buildup on the skin, and to reduce shear to underlying tissues. This foam topper is 2" in height and includes the unique Heel Slope™ feature, designed to further reduce pressure for the sensitive heel area.

Safety Edge™ Bolsters

The patented Safety Edge™ consists of a firm 2-part foam bolster whose inner edge contours under pressure to direct the patient towards the center of the mattress. This adds to patient stability in sitting and lying down, and helps prevent falls and entrapment between the siderail and the mattress.

Air Cylinders

Four individual, air cylinders that automatically customize pressure distribution to the individual patient. Air cylinders provide a constant, uniform distribution of safe pressures beneath the patient, and prevent bottoming out.

Maintenance Access Ports

Easy access ports to use with air inflation system. Assures proper air pressures are maintained.

Air-and-Foam Renewable Support

The new PressureGuard Renew starts with the same unique combination of pressure distributing air cylinders and patented Geo-Matt® anti-shearing topper with which its predecessor - the PressureGuard II - set the standard for non-powered replacement mattresses for the past decade.

The Renew takes that standard even further, strengthened by the same design advances incorporated throughout the PressureGuard Series. Combines the benefits of air displacement with the surface stability required for patient function and safety.

And unlike all-foam and innerspring mattresses, fatigue won't rob it of its support and comfort over time. Instead, the Renew maintains like-new support throughout its life with simple, occasional air system renewal - performed without ever removing it from the bed.

Includes the same great standard features of other PressureGuard products, including patented Geo-Matt® anti-shearing top surface, exclusive Heel Slope™ feature, and Safety Edge™ stability bolster system.

Weight limit: 500 lbs.

Mattress weight: 20 lbs.

Warranty: 5-years, non-prorated.

Standard Twin, Full, Queen and King models and custom sizes also available for wider bed frames.

Renew Studies

Saving Costs and Breakdown Incidence with the PressureGuard Renew
Maggie Bork, RN, BSN, CETN; Vencor, San Diego
Clinical Reports: Series on Skin and Wound Care Management, April 1998.
Replacing 28 of their 65 beds with PressureGuard Renew resulted in cost savings of $16,460.15 per month after a dramatic decrease in the rental of treatment mattresses.

Long Term Usage of the PressureGuard II for the High-Risk/High Needs Patient in the Long Term and Subacute Setting
Denise Szczygiel, LPN; Integrated Health Services,Pinellas Park,FL
In 9 months of use, the PressureGuard II filled the prevention or treatment needs of 92% (69 of 75) of the patients placed on it. Only three percent (2 of 75) experienced further skin breakdown secondary to other health complications.

Effect of the PressureGuard II on the Incidence Rates of Facility-Acquired Pressure Ulcers
Leila Knox, RN, CETN; Casa Metropolitan Rehabilitation Center, Fresno, CA; February, 1997.
This 233-bed long-term-care and subacute facility replaced 125 (56%) of their mattresses with PressureGuard II mattresses. Their incidence rates of facility acquired Stage I and Stage II pressure ulcers decreased by 66%, and remained at those levels for more than 2 years. This prompted them to replace the remainder of their mattresses with PressureGuard II’s.

Pressure Ulcer Pain: Assessment and Quantification
Dallam L et al; JWOCN 22(5), Sept 1995.
A cross-sectional study design was used to document the perception of pressure ulcer pain in 132 patients in an acute care setting. “Subjects placed on [the PressureGuard II] had significantly less pain (p<0.01) than those whose lesions were not managed by this technique, including those placed on other pressure-reducing devices.”

Bed Selection
Community Hospitals, Indianapolis
Poster presented at the National WOCN Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 1998.
This poster exhibits the Bed Selection Guide produced by the ET nurses of the facility for choosing one of the five specialty mattresses available. The Guide begins with the PressureGuard II, which is their house-wide surface. Indications for use include Stage I or Stage II pressure ulcers, or Stage III or Stage IV ulcers on one turning surface, and with the patient’s weight less than 350 lbs.

Evaluating the Long-Term Performance of a Foam-Core Hospital Replacement
Krouskop T et al; JWOCN 21(6), Nov 1994
This study compares the stiffness of new foam replacement mattresses to 2-year-old mattresses. Stiffness at the sacral-coccyx region decreased 53%, heel region decreased 41%, and the head region decreased 30%. A new foam replacement product may approximate the “ideal” load carrying needs, but these abilities will change significantly with time. Foam/air combination mattresses, such as the PressureGuard Renew, with re-inflatable air tubes, will retain their pressure reducing capabilities over time.

The Science Behind the Geo-Matt Design

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This patented support surface design was developed by Span-America in the late 1980’s in conjunction with Dr. Thomas Krouskop of the Baylor School of Medicine. Computer-guided equipment is used to cut foam into a geometric pattern of supportive cubes that are undercut with an open channel.

Unlike flat or convoluted ("eggcrate") foam, these individual cubes allow the surface to conform to the body and accommodate bony prominences, redistributing pressure across the support surface. This minimizes the pulling of the skin and tissue over bony prominences, thereby offsetting the harmful effects of shearing forces.

The “Ring of Air” helps to disperse heat and moisture away from the body and out into the atmosphere. The channel also assists in pressure management by providing, in effect, a layer of air between two layers of foam to enhance conformance of the foam to the body.

Does it work? In a two-year independent study*, 83 patients at risk for, or with, pressure ulcers were randomized to either the Geo-Matt or an air-suspension bed. Results: an analysis of covariance revealed no statistically significant difference in the prevention or healing of any stage pressure ulcer with respect to type of support surface used.

Based on its clinical efficacy as an overlay surface, Span-America has incorporated the design into the surface of the majority of its mattress, seat cushion, and patient positioning products.

The Science Behind the Heel Slope for heel protection

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Heels are the second most common site for pressure ulcers, second only to the sacrum. By virtue of its thinly padded surface, relatively poor blood supply, and difficult anatomical design for offloading, the heel is especially vulnerable to tissue damage. Heel ulcers are also difficult to

heal, due to these same reasons.

In order to help to reduce the incidence of heel breakdown, all Geo-Mattress and PressureGuard products are designed with a Heel Slope. The foot end of the mattress slopes down to increase load on the calves and to decrease load on the heels. On average, heel pressures are reduced by about 27% with this design compared to flat designs.

A flat surface does not conform to the shape of the lower leg, especially behind the Achilles tendon.

Result: The heel must bear excess load, and skin will break down more easily.

The Heel Slope slightly lowers the heel, allowing hte mattress to fill in the space behind the Achilles tendon.

Result: Pressure is distributed over the entire lower leg, reducing pressure on the heel.

Science Behind Safety Edge

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The PressureGuard Safety Edge helps to prevent falls and bed rail entrapment.

The Safety Edge is a two-part bolster system surrounding the air tubes on all PressureGuard products. When the user rolls toward or sits on the edge of the mattress, the inner of the two parts bends in toward the center o fthe mattress, while the outer part resists compression.

Standard, fully air-filled mattresses collapse as the patient rolls toward the edge, directing the patient into the siderails or onto the floor.

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