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Welcome to Innovation.
CAREGIVERS ARE AMAZING.
Over the years, nurses and clinicians have transformed patient care by reducing hospital-acquired conditions with innovative techniques.
Imagine applying this expertise to combat pressure injuries in healthcare. What if we combined top practices into one protocol and device, enabling caregivers to provide optimal care?
Airisana® combines years of science and nursing know-how into one product with the benefits of several.
Encompass Group, with leading experts, has made this possible with the Airisana® Therapeutic Support Surface, a breakthrough merging multiple product benefits into one solution.
5 Beds = 1 Airisana
5 Beds = 1 Airisana
MOST HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED CONDITIONS DECLINE, BUT NOT PRESSURE INJURIES1
National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries from falls helped prevent 20,500 deaths and saved $7.7 billion between 2014 and 2017, which is tremendous news. But Pressure Injuries actually rose in incidence during that period by approximately 6%. In 2014, the PI rate was at 21.8 per 1,000 discharges, or approximately 647,000 PIs. In 2017, the rate went up to 23.0 per 1,000 discharges. More importantly, AHRQ estimates that an additional 4,900 people died from hospital-acquired PIs during this period.
1. Source: AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions Updated Baseline Rates and Preliminary Results 2014-2017
*CAUTI - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
+CLABSI - Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
**The percent change numbers are compared to the 2014 measured baseline for HACs.
THE REASONS FOR THE RISE IN PRESSURE
INJURY RATES ARE MANY.
Why Airisana®?
Airisana was developed because, even with the multitude of surfaces available already, Healthcare-Acquired Pressure
Injury rates have not only stopped declining, they’ve actually risen in the last few years.
Decompensation and Adaptation
Extended exposure to moisture and pressure are two key contributing factors to skin degradation in the areas that eventually become pressure injuries. When skin, our largest organ, becomes compromised, it can fail to respond to the additional overload of these factors. Or, a patient can adapt to the consistently repetitive therapies of traditional support surface modalities and fail to respond to that therapy.
Growing Complexities in Patient Care
With the growing complexities of patient care, healthcare facilities are challenged more than ever with the demands of balancing the increasing acuity of patients, while managing limits on staff, funding and facility resources. Complicated training and additional staff time requirements can cause additional stresses and loads on staff, resources and equipment. Each patient’s body can physiologically respond differently to multi-faceted treatment.
Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration Of Care
Traditional therapeutic support surfaces and pressure injury treatments struggle to support multiple care disciplines provided by other members of the patient care team, such as Respiratory Care and Physical Therapy. When delivering combinations of treatments, it’s important that pressure injury prevention and treatment doesn’t benefit only one care discipline while presenting challenges for others.
Extended Patient-Stays
Patients without pressure injuries have an average hospital stay of 5 days, while those who succumb to injuries stay an average of 11. This can impact the facility through reimbursement issues as well as increased acuities, PI risks, and overall costs. More importantly, the patient experience and quality of life is also impacted.
The Airisana® Therapeutic Support System combines a new approach in air delivery and pressure management programming with a desire to combine all the best practices to support transformative patient care.
Revolutionary Pressure Therapy
The Airisana® surface offers a newly developed algorithm that combines multiple pressure therapies, such as alternating pressure, immersion, envelopment, and pressure redistribution. This approach is intended to support the prevention of patient adaptation to the surface, and aid in the care team’s approach to a holistic care plan.
Focused Airflow Where Needed
Our desire to improve on traditional low air loss technology starts by introducing an airflow system that targets air to the highest patient pressure points on the surface.
Turn Assist & Repositioning
Airisana’s® design allows for repositioning while the patient is on the surface and is intended to support efforts to reduce friction and shear risk, as well as staff injury.
Early Mobility & Bedside Therapy Support
Airisana® is equipped with firm side rail design to aid with ingress and egress, and for encouraged early mobility and stabilization at the bedside for interdisciplinary care needs
Shear Risk Reduction–Airisana’s
surface layers and patented bladder shape design reduce the risks of skin shear.
Dartex Micro-Management Cover
Easy to clean cover materials aid with product management and support infection prevention practices.
Extended Life Battery Backup
Airisana’s smart battery intends to support care staff & patient needs with extended battery life of up to 26 hours in the event of power failure.
Intuitive, TouchPad User Control Unit
The smart control unit is designed with ease of use in mind for care staff to aid with simplified patient setup.
With Airisana®,
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL CARE can happen right at the bedside
Airisana’s design supports efforts to reduce friction and shear risk during patient repositioning.
With its stable base and firm perimeter support, the Airisana® Therapeutic Support System may be used bedside for many respiratory, physical and other therapy care situations.
Interested in the Benefits of a 5-in-1 Surface?
The Airisana® surface offers a newly developed algorithm that combines multiple pressure therapies, such as alternating pressure, immersion, envelopment, and pressure redistribution. This approach is intended to support the prevention of patient adaptation to the surface, and aid in the care team’s approach to a holistic care plan.
Aims to Improve Efficiency & Reduced Costs Through the Reduction of Surfaces Needed to Deliver the Same Number of Pressure Therapies
Firm Perimeter Construction & Pressure Modalities Supports Interdisciplinary Care, Circulation and Patient Movement with the Intention to Reduce Time-to-Mobility, Avoiding Complications and Additional In-Patient Stay
The Facilitation of Multiple Pressure Modes & Targeted Airflow, During Low Air Loss Delivery, Supports the Prevention of Patient Adaptation, as well as Increased Heat & Moisture
The Turn Assist and Lateral Rotation Mode are Intended to Aid Staff in Patient Repositioning & Reducing Staff Injury
Innovative Inflation Sequence
Smart Distribution of Airflow
Multi-Dimensional Therapy Modes
The Airisana® surface offers a newly developed algorithm that combines multiple pressure therapies, such as alternating pressure, immersion, envelopment, and pressure redistribution. This approach is intended to support the prevention of patient adaptation to the surface, and aid in the care team’s approach to a wholistic care plan.
Our desire to improve on traditional low air loss technology starts by introducing an airflow system that targets air to the highest patient pressure points on the surface.
• All pressure therapy modes and turn assist perform in concert.
• Air-tight bladder design incorporates pressure redistribution, alternating pressure and envelopment therapies with transformative inflation sequence.
• Turn-assist and lateral rotation therapy supports pulmonary therapy and makes toileting easy.
Intuitive, Soft-Touch User Control Unit
smart and quiet control unit is easy for the clinician to use. It is an intuitive system that simplifies patient setup and cross-functional care. Surface Comfort Adjustment
Assists with personalized patient care options and settings. Firm and Stable Base and Perimeter Support
safe patient ingress and egress, and emergency evacuation needs. Designed for Shear Reduction and Management Surface layers and patented bladder design helps to reduce the risk of shear.
to clean cover materials aid with product management and support infection prevention practices.
Key Specifications
Airisana®
Surface Width ............................................................................................. Available in Widths Up to 42”
Surface Length .......................................................................................... Available in Lengths Up to 84”
Multi-Way Stretch Cover ................................................................................................................... Standard
Therapy Mode ..................................................... Redistribution, Alternating Pressure, Low Air Loss, Immersion/Envelopment, Lateral Rotation
Capacity ................................................................................................ At 35” - 500 lbs, At 42” - 725 lbs.
Fire Barrier .............................................................................................................................................. Standard
Perimeter ................................................................................................................................................. Standard
Heel Slope ............................................................................................................................................... Standard
The eMaxAir Pro can meet your Static and Active pressure redistribution needs
SYSTEM DETAILS
• Weight capacity: Up to 725 lbs.
• Available in widths up to 42”, and lengths up to 84”
• Warranty:
• Surface – 5 years
• Cover – 2 year
The eMax™ portfolio of surfaces provides several surface options
SYSTEM DETAILS
• Available in 4 different designs to cover a wide range of pressure redistribution needs
• Unit - 1 year
• Weight capacity: Up to 1,000 lbs.
• Available in widths up to 60”, and lengths up to 90”
• Warranty:
• Surface – Varies; up to 6 years
• Cover – 1 year