Wellell G2 Pro Care Auto Bariatric Mattress System Higher Specification Instructions

Wellell G2 Pro Care Auto Bariatric Mattress System Higher Specification

Product Information

Specifications:

• Supports up to 450 kg (992 lb)
• Rectangular-shaped air cells
• Sacral area cushioning
• Automated firmness calibration

Product Usage Instructions

Firmness Calibration:

The Pro-care Auto Bariatric features automated mattress firmness calibration that optimizes pressure relief, envelopment, and immersion of the patient’s body. This allows caregivers to focus on other tasks while ensuring patient comfort and prevention of pressure injuries. To lock the panel and prevent unauthorized adjustments, caregivers can enable the lock feature.

Skin Microclimate Management:

Proper skin microclimate management is crucial for reducing pressure injury risks. Ensure that the patient’s skin is kept dry and clean to maintain tissue structure and function. This will help improve the patient’s tolerance to mechanical loading and prevent superficial and deep tissue pressure injuries.

Sacral Area Cushioning:

The Pro-care Auto Bariatric is designed to prevent bottoming out, especially in the sacral area where substantial pressure is exerted. The air mattress with seat cushioning and pressure settings retains firmness to support the sacrum effectively. This feature helps reduce pressure injury risks by cushioning fat and tissue loading.

FAQ

• Q: What is the weight capacity of the Pro-care Auto Bariatric?
  • A: The Pro-care Auto Bariatric supports up to 450 kg (992 lb).
• Q: How does the firmness calibration feature benefit caregivers?
  • A: The automated firmness calibration optimizes pressure relief and comfort for patients, allowing caregivers to focus on other tasks while maintaining patient care quality.

Using Instruction

Reducing patient handling complexity and improving pressure injury prevention for bariatric care delivery

• Overweight and obese patients (BMI above 40 kg/m2) have a 26% pressure injury prevalence. Morbid obesity, malnutrition and degression in mobility lead to severely impaired mobility, larger and heavier skin folds, and poor hygiene that is attributed to skin and tissue maceration, inflammation, and necrosis.1,2
• 48% of global nursing staff reported injuries from manually handling bariatric patients. Proper bariatric patient handling requires additional time, labor, training, staff, specialists, and resources, significantly increasing caregivers’ workload and fear of bariatric care.3,4
• Pro-care Auto Bariatric supports up to 450 kg (992  lb). Automated firmness calibration, rectangular-shaped air cells, and sacral area cushioning improve pressure injury prevention, comfort, and protection against bottoming out for bariatric patients and reduce the caregiver’s workflow efficiency and occupational injury risks.

Firmness calibration optimizes comfort and efficiency

Automated mattress firmness calibration optimises pressure relief, envelopment, and immersion of the patient’s body, allowing the caregiver to focus on othertasks. Caregivers can lock the panel to prevent visitors from tempering the pressure settings.

Air mattresses minimize pressure injury development

Clinical Practice Guideline 2019 referenced an observational study by Pemberton et al. (2009). The outcome demonstrated that patients treated using a specialized support surface did not develop new pressure injuries and reduced existing pressure injury sizes.

Proper skin microclimate reduces pressure injury risks

Clinical Practice Guideline advises proper skin microclimate management to retain tissue structure and function, enabling higher pressure tolerance to mechanical loading and improving prevention for superficial and deep tissue pressure injuries.

Sacral area cushioning prevents bottom-outs

Clinical Guideline 2019 recommends air mattresses with seat cushioning and pressure settings that retain firmness when the sacrum exerts substantial pressure. Pro-care Auto Bariatric improves sacral area support and cushions fat/tissue loading, reducing pressure injury risks.

Clinical Benefits

• Obese patients’ limbs weigh approximately 16% of the total body weight. Changing dressings for a 250 kg patient involves elevating and supporting over 40 kg. Repetitive manual labor increases caregivers’ prevalence of lower back,forehand, wrist, and knee pain, resulting in lower care frequency and quality.3,4
• Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline 2019 advises bariatric-appropriate equipment that accommodates bariatric bodies to improve pressure redistribution, shear reduction, microclimate management, and pressure injury prevention.5,6
• Simplifying pressure injury prevention and caregivers’ workload and alleviating potential harm caused by repositioning bariatric patients improves frontline working conditions and patient care quality.4

1. CLWK: Connecting Learners with Knowledge. (2018, February). Guideline: Prevention of Pressure Injury in Adults & Children. CLWK: Connecting Learners with Knowledge. https://www.clwk.ca/get-resource/prevention-of-pressure- injury

2. Workum, J. D., van Olffen, A., Vaes, P. J., van Gestel, A., Vos, P., & Ramnarain, D. (2022). The association between obesity and pressure ulcer development in critically ill patients: A prospective cohort study. Obesity research & clinical practice,  16(1), 56–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2022.01.003

3. Choi, S. D., & Brings, K. (2015). Work-related musculoskeletal risks associated with nurses and nursing assistants handling overweight and obese patients: A literature review. Work (Reading, Mass.), 53(2), 439–448. https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-152222

4. McClean, K., Cross, M., & Reed, S. (2021). Risks to Healthcare Organizations and Staff Who Manage Obese (Bariatric) Patients and Use of Obesity Data to Mitigate Risks: A Literature Review.Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare,14,
   577–588. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S289676

5. Health Survey for England, 2018: Quick guide. (2019, December 3).Health Survey for England 2018 [NS] – NHS Digital. NHS Digital. https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/health-survey-for-england/2018

6. European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, & Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance. (2019).Prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers/injuries: clinical practice guideline: the international guideline 2019. National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. (Original work published 2022)

7. Harris, J. A., Engberg, J., & Castle, N. G. (2018). Obesity and intensive staffing needs of nursing home residents.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.),39(6), 696–701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse

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