Capstone’s Incontinence Relief System (IRS) consists of the following components.

• An eight inch thick pressure reducing mattress with a cavity specially designed for our concept by Tempur-Pedic Medical.
• A specially designed disposable draw sheet with an attached waste collection plastic bag. 

The application of the IRS involves placing the draw sheet and attached plastic bag onto the mattress and extending the plastic bag through the mattress cavity. The mattress can be placed onto essentially any hospital bed.

While the patient lies comfortably on the Tempur Pedic Medical mattress, the patient's fecal and urine waste are collected in the bottom of the plastic bag. Thus, there is an effective separation of the patient's skin and their fecal and urine waste.

A hospital trial, in addition to numerous home health care patients, have shown patients consistently stay properly positioned over the mattress cavity. This is due to a strong enveloping force produced by the combination of the unique Tempur Pedic material and the mattress cavity.

Changing the sheet/bag is a simple procedure which can be accomplished in less than 60 seconds generally with only one caregiver.

The IRS is a unique and extremely beneficial medical product in regards to the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers due to the following two factors:

•  There is a highly effective separation of the patient's skin and their fecal waste.
• Furthermore, mattress pressure mapping results show there is an area of zero pressure that extends beyond the mattress cavity to encompass a critical portion of the patient's buttock, including the sacrum.

Alternate to fecal collection, the IRS can be used solely as a zero pressure mattress in the buttock's area by placing a sheet over the mattress cavity. Additionally, a covered plug is available for the mattress cavity.

The IRS is most effective in separating the skin of male patients from their urine waste when used in conjunction with a male external catheter that conveys the urine into the IRS's waste collection plastic bag.

The effectiveness and important patient care benefits provided by the IRS belie its simplicity. The challenge in the developing the IRS was to designed a mattress that concurrently provided the following features:

• Non collapsible in the vicinity of the mattress cavity.
• Pressure reducing and comfortable.
• Zero pressure in a critical area of the buttock, including the sacrum.

The mattress used with the IRS has been designed for Capstone by Tempur-Pedic Medical and provides the important features identified above. Tempur-Pedic Medical has Co-Branded the mattress with Capstone.

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