No need to leave patient
turning to chance.
Toto® is an automatic patient turning system designed to provide effective head to toe pressure redistribution and assist with patient turning. Toto® not only increases patient safety by ensuring patients remain pressure injury free, it also provides a solution to manual turning and reduces the risk of manual handling injuries to caregivers and health care professionals.
The Toto® Lateral Turning System
How does it work?
Designed to assist with patient turning and pressure injury prevention plans, Toto® is designed around inflating alternating air cells within the turning platform positioned underneath the patient’s mattress. The patient is then turned laterally via the mattress surface.
The Toto® Touch control unit provides customized care with a user-determined side selection feature and accurately timed digital inflation and rest durations.
When left and right is selected, the turning cycle will always commence with the left-hand side turning first.
Sophisticated blockage and air leak alarms help ensure patient safety, as well as an interface lock to avoid unwanted setting changes.
A convenient therapy pause mode enables patient interaction without having to stop therapy, and a service indicator to maintain performance also comes as standard.
The system is compatible with profiling beds and both standard and alternating pressure relieving equipment.
Increased Patient Safety
Although patient positioning is an important part of patient care, there is limited information on what happens in clinical practice. What published evidence there is, suggests that patients may remain in one position for extended periods of time1.
Toto® automatically takes care of patient turning, reducing the risk of pressure related tissue damage, increasing patient safety and reducing risk to care givers.
Reduce Risk of Personal Injury
The most common care giver tasks that lead to injury are patient: lifting, transferring and repositioning1.
According to OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) in one large national survey, patient handling injuries accounted for 25 percent of all workers’ compensation claims for the healthcare industry2.
Toto® quietly and gently turns patients at prescribed intervals, reducing the dependency on nursing staff and care givers, providing safe patient handling around the clock.
Benefits of Toto®
Patient Compliance
Toto® automatically turns patients relieving pressure over their most vulnerable areas.
Increases Patient Safety
Toto® reduces the risk of pressure injury, increasing patient safety and reducing the risk to care givers.
Turning and Positioning Protocol Compliance
Toto® turning is well tolerated and is clinically effective6. It requires little resource and reduces risk to staff and patients.
Reduce The Dependency On Nursing Staff and Care Givers
Toto® quietly and gently turns patients at prescribed intervals, reducing the dependency on nursing staff and care givers, providing safe patient handling around the clock.
Quick and Easy To Install
Toto® is compact and rolled and has two simple connectors.
Compliant
Toto® is compliant and supports the NPUAP Guideline Recommendations7.
References:
1. Goldhill D R, Badacsonyi A, Goldhill A A, Waldmann C. A prospective observational study of ICU patient position and frequency of turning. Anaesthesia. Journal of Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Anaesthesia 2008, 63, 509-51.
2. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Safe Patient Handling Programs: Effectiveness and Cost Savings. Available at: https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3279.pdf Accessed 29.03.2019
3. Warner, V. (2015) Evaluating the effectiveness of a new Lateral Turning System to aid patient repositioning using Dynamic Interface Pressure Mapping. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Data on file, Frontier Medical Group.
4. National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance. Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Quick Reference Guide. Emily Haesler (Ed.). Cambridge Media: Osborne Park, Australia; 2014.
