Air Fluidised Care (also known as Air-Fluidized Therapy/AFT) is an optimal healing environment that supports patients with conversion of tissue caused by burns, bedsores, ulcers and other exuding wounds as well as patients that require rest in a stable, clean environment to avoid complications.
Maintaining control
Air Fluidised Care guarantees extremely low interface pressure and encapsulation of bacteria combined with continuous temperature control and dry ventilation around the patient’s body. These circumstances will secure the environment to improve healing and prevent unexpected complications.
Conditioned airflow
A patient is kept floating on a mass of tiny glass beads which are ventilated at low pressure by a conditioned airflow. The resulting support medium can be characterized as a “dry fluid”.
Proportioned filter sheet
The surface of the glass beads is separated from the patient by a generously proportioned filter sheet that allows the patient to “float” freely.
Minimum interface pressure
The principle is to create perfect envelopment of any individual body shape and redistribute the weight evenly, resulting in extremely low interface pressure, below capillary level.
Clean Environment
The composition of the glass beads (high pH value) in combination
with a dry airflow rapidly reduces the bacterial growth in the AFC.
Due to the constant airflow which is maintained at low relative
humidity and accurate temperature, all moisture coming from
wound exudation, blood, urine, faeces, perspiration, etcetera will
be desiccated, encapsulated and inactivated