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Patient presented with breakdown on buttocks upon admission and with treatment and the immerse support surface the skin was healing.After several days of being on the surface, staff requested patient be moved to regular icu surface as the "surface unit was becoming very hot".Patient's back region was becoming more reddened, and she had a spiked temp as well.When they moved her to a regular icu surface, they reported patient's temp went down 2 degrees.Two days after being placed on regular icu surface, patient's buttocks appeared very dark and purple in discoloration.
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Testing: on 7/30/2025 testing started on the support surface and blower.The ambient room temperature was at 71.3 degrees f, and the support surface temperature was 72.6 degrees f.Turned blower on, set to autofirm, and left it on running for 2 hours.At this time, we did another surface temperature check, and the support surface tested at 72.5 degrees f.Left the unit running until 7/31/2025 at 11:00 am, so the unit ran for about 22.5 hours.We then took another ambient air temp reading which was 71.3 degrees f, and the support surface temperature was at 77.7 degrees f.From this testing the unit did go up about 5 degrees.Support surface was checked for any warm spots and there were none.After running the blower for the 22.5 hour test, the external case temperature was at 77.8 degrees.Conclusion: the test was conducted under the conditions that represented worst case conditions.The autofirm setting represents the maximum blower setting but would not be used while a patient was on the surface for an extended period of time.The overall change of 5 degrees f represents normal function of the device, and the resulting temperature would not cause any patient harm.Additionally, the device was tested and found to be in proper operating condition.
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