The Pink Stulberg Kit™

The Pink
Stulberg Kit™

Patient on Stulberg Kit

Safe, Effective, and Efficient Upgrades for Lateral Patient Positioning

New Layers of Protection


  • Help prevent Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPIs)
  • PinkProtect™ materials are immersive, enveloping, soft, breathable, and help maximize positioning security
  • Achieve a precise fit for your specific surgical equipment
  • Customizable kits optimize individual patient safety

Clinical Best Practices


Provide a consistent, safe standard of care for every patient, in every procedure, every time.

Innovative, yet supportive materials offer protection against HAPIs, regardless of patient weight or BMI. Pink Stulberg Kits can be tailored to the unique needs of your surgical specialty.

Lateral Positioning Solutions for a Range of Surgical Procedures

Pink Stulberg Kits Provide Safe, Stable Support for Patients in the Lateral Decubitus Position


Orthopedic

Orthopedic


Orthopedic procedures such as hip and shoulder arthroplasty benefit from advanced lateral positioning solutions for improved access and control during complex joint operations

Common Procedures:
  • Hip replacement
  • Shoulder arthroplasty
  • Ankle arthroplasty

Reduce Time, Costs, and Unnecessary Risk

Stopwatch

Setup Time Under One Minute

  • Setup time under one minute saves your hospital up to $1,900 per procedure*
    *Based on OR costs of $100/minute1 2, and 20-minute average setup times for competitive systems
  • Standardized best-practices can be achieved with pre-configured kits, eliminating makeshift "off-label" solutions

Less Time for Risk

  • For each hour of the duration of surgery, the risk of SSI increased by 34%3
  • The risk of pressure injuries increases by 40% every 30 minutes of surgery4
  • Prolonged anesthesia duration is associated with increased odds of complication, venous thromboembolism, increased length of stay, and return to operating room.5
Pressure Map

Proven Pressure Management

In a study of 15 subjects ranging from 16-54 BMI (average BMI 35.5), the Pink Pad provided an average peak pressure reduction of 43%.

US Government Data6 show Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPIs):
  • Are the direct cause of death for roughly 60,000 patients each year
  • Add an estimated $43,180 in costs per hospital stay
  • Result in more than 17,000 medical lawsuits, annually (the second most common claim after wrongful death)
  • Increase hospital stays by nine days on average

Images shown are of the same 30.85 BMI subject, on a solid surface, with and without the Pink Pad. Tests were conducted with an Xsensor Sensor Pad Model PX 100:48.144.02
Patient Callouts

Simple, Safe Solutions that Help Patient Safety Advocates Meet

AORN
Guidelines & Recommendations

Official AORN Guidelines Recommend7


  • “A patient in the lateral position is at risk for injury from pressure on vulnerable points on the dependent side.” Section 10.0 - Positioning the Patient
  • “During prolonged surgery in the lateral position, the patient can experience local muscle compression with ischemia and subsequent reperfusion injury leading to compartment syndrome or rhabdomyolysis.”Section 10.1 - Positioning the Patient


  • “Relieve, reduce, and redistribute contact pressure at bony prominences.” Section 3.13 - Positioning the Patient
  • “The lateral position increases the risk for injury to the common perineal nerve. Using padding helps to protect the perineal nerve on the dependent leg from being compressed between the fibula and the OR bed.” Section 10.10 - Positioning the Patient
  • “Do not use a horseshoe-shaped head positioner for patients in the prone, lateral, sitting, or semi-sitting positions.” Section 3.25 - Positioning the Patient
  • “Place a pillow or head positioner under the patient’s head with the dependent ear assessed after positioning.” Section 10.3 - Positioning the Patient
  • “Place an axillary roll under the patient’s dependent thorax, distal to the axillary fold, at the level of the seventh to the ninth rib.” Section 10.5 - Positioning the Patient
  • “Maintain the patient’s physiologic spinal and neck alignment.” Section 10.6 - Positioning the Patient
  • “Place safety straps across the patient’s hips.” Section 10.8 - Positioning the Patient
  • “Hyperextension of the neck can stretch the brachial plexus, lead to cardiovascular complications associated with compression or mechanical manipulation of the carotid sinus, or injure the spinal cord.” Section 3.8.1 - Safe Patient Positioning
  • “A standardized product selection process assists in the selection of functional and reliable products that are safe, cost-effective, and environmentally preferable and that promote quality care, as well as decreases duplication or rapid obsolescence.” Section 1.1 - Environmental Cleaning

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Clinical Evidence

  • “Postoperative erythema was significantly less common on the Pink Pad…” 8
  • “There was significantly less pain in the Pink Pad group versus the gel-pad group.” 8
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8Read the Landmark Study in The Journal of Gynecologic Surgery

Clinical Feedback

Xodus Medical’s Stulberg Kits perfectly complement our existing equipment, and they advance our efforts toward a pressure-injury free operating room environment.
—  Michele Giacobbi
RN, BSN, CNOR
Pittsburgh, PA

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