Low Air Loss Mattress For Sleeping Patients

Even a patient deserves a peaceful sleep

Low air loss mattresses are a new version of air mattress turning systems to help prevent against and reduce the risks of bedsores. Bedsores or pressure ulcers are lesions on the skin that affect the body of a person when they are sleeping and cannot turn. This can be due to these reasons. An unrelenting pressure because of the bed; stops the blood flow to a certain body part, when shearing forces. Which is when skin moves one way and the bone moves the other way or friction, which is when weakness makes turning a tough task and the patient injures himself while turning, act upon the body. Usually when the person is sleeping this happens to those people who are elderly, invalids due to injury or age, weakened by medication or disease or rendered comatose by sedation. These people cannot effectively turn in bed during sleep and this can cause these bedsores. Any person who is unable to turn around in bed by themselves, are susceptible to this and even with proper medical treatment. Healing them is not a simple procedure. This leaves us with the only, and by far the best choice, and that is to prevent them. Low air loss mattresses can help prevent bedsores and considerably reduce the risk.

How Do They Help

Low air loss mattresses will be an excellent way to prevent these bedsores as they automatically turn the person in the bed after regular intervals of time. This means that if a person who is unable to turn is sleeping, somebody will not have to come and turn that person around nor would the person have to exert any movement on their own, thereby injuring themselves. This will prevent and reduce the risk of bedsores for patients. This is by far the best sort of medical care, as earlier the medical staff had to designate people for the task of turning invalid, elderly and sedated patients. Some elderly people who suffer the same problem but are bed ridden at home had to depend on equally old spouses or hire nurses. All this meant that the patients would have a disturbed sleep, as would the people turning them. Low air loss mattresses make this problem redundant.

These mattresses have air cells in them on the left and right side of the mattress. These cells inflate and deflate alternating with each other every four, five or six minutes so that the patient on the mattress turns by about 30 degrees with the inflating air cells. No pressure whatsoever goes towards the spine.

The earlier mattresses used to have one glitch and that was that the air cells used to lose the air in them too fast resulting in lower turning angles. The new low air loss mattresses retain air inside the cells longer, as the air cells in them are of polyurethane coated nylon rather than the previously used vinyl.

There are many mattresses like these and they work on different principles like alternating pressure, turning and static air flotation. You should consult a doctor to see which one you need.

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