A MedTech 2019

Top 10 Wound Care Provider

Pressure Injury Prevention

Optimize prevention for high-risk patients

Pressure Injury Treatment

Improve treatment and avoid wound escalation

The Gen. 2 TurnCare

Guardian System

Prevent sacral-region vascular compression and resulting tissue ischemia and reperfusion injury

The TurnCare Guardian System is uniquely designed to prevent sacral-region vascular compression by restoring the therapeutic benefits of healthy movement for patients who are unable to move themselves.

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The TurnCare Guardian System

How it works

The TurnCare Guardian System supports the patient's sacrum while continually manipulating adjacent pressure spaces and pressure points ("pressure gradients") beneath the sacrum through the sequential inflation and deflation of anatomy-specific air chambers. These moving pressure gradients recreate the benefits of natural movement for mobility impaired patients to avoid vascular compression and subsequent ischemia and reperfusion injury.

Next-level Technology

Adaptive Pressure Capabilities

5 readings per second

Constantly monitors chamber pressures and adjusts the application of pressure to create non-alternating spaces beneath the sacrum. 

Anatomy-specific

Design

Small, 3D air chambers

Designed specifically to accommodate the sacral bony prominences and vasculature, and to allow precise localization of no-pressure spaces.

Algorithm-based Application

Real-time response

Dynamically responds to movement from the patient or underlying surface, to ensure that the desired pressure application is maintained.

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