Easier to Use, More Efficient, Safer for Patients EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Two nursing professionals, Nate Sheehan and Gloria Payne, provide first-hand accounts of how TrenGuard™ Trendelenburg Patient Restraint from D. A. Surgical is easier for hospital staff to use, is procedurally more efficient, and is safer for patients compared to beanbag positioning systems and tape and foam. “Speed Bump” bolster supports patients at the trapezius muscles. CASE STUDY Nate Sheehan, director of nursing at Lafayette Surgery Center in Lafayette, Colorado, first learned about D. A. Surgical TrenGuard™ when he worked at Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. “I was brought on as the clinical coordinator for general surgery, gynecology, urology, robotics, and pediatric dental, and when I was there, I helped to build their bariatrics service line. TrenGuard™ was already being used there. Prior to that, when I was doing these procedures, I was using a beanbag system.” From Sheehan’s perspective, D. A. Surgical TrenGuard™ is more efficient, easier to use, and safer than traditional beanbag systems. Sheehan explains how D. A. Surgical TrenGuard™ compares to old-style beanbag positioning: “With the beanbag, you’re supposed to take the beanbag off the bed between patients for cleaning, and it has three straps on it, and it straps down to the bed, and you have to make sure the straps are positioned a certain way on the side rails of the O.R. table. So, each side rail attaches to the bed in spots. When you’re positioning your straps, you have to make sure it’s between two of the attachment points to the O.R. table, so that if there is any sliding, which there shouldn’t be, but if there is sliding, those straps don’t slide past that point.” ✓ Easier to use ✓ More efficient ✓ Safer for patients “I would say TrenGuard™ is a more complete system, and why I say that is because of the additional supplies you need for the beanbag positioner. You need extra foam in certain places because the patient is lying on a hard, lumpy surface.” More Efficient According to Sheehan, D. A. Surgical TrenGuard™ is “better from an efficiency standpoint” compared to traditional beanbag positioning, which requires more complex setup procedures and disassembly protocols. TrenGuard™ has allowed for a reduction in room turnover time. Earlier in his career, Sheehan was recruited by St. Anthony’s Hospital in Colorado to “build their robotic surgery program from scratch.” He explains how D. A. Surgical TrenGuard™ allowed him to increase efficiency: “One of the first things I did when I got there was bring in TrenGuard™ because we were trying to entice our surgeons to bring in more cases.” After Sheehan implemented process flow changes at St. Anthony’s, he says, “All our service lines had less than 30-minute turnovers, except for urology.” There, the turnover times were about 50 minutes. “We switched out the beanbag system they were using, and we implemented TrenGuard™, and turnovers got down to about 27 minutes.” In addition, Sheehan notes that D. A. Surgical TrenGuard™ is deployable with only two people, while the traditional beanbag system requires a minimum of four. Soft pillows maintain alignme

Easier to Use, More Efficient, Safer for Patients Sheehan explains how D. A. Surgical TrenGuard™ is safer than traditional beanbag positioning systems: “One thing we learned in nursing school that is drilled into us is the formula ‘pressure over time kills cells.’ That’s how you end up with pressure injury. Pressure over a significant amount of time can start to kill nerve cells, which can cause pain and failure of those nerves, so you wind up with people waking up with drop foot or numbness down the outside of their arm, and they sometimes never get that sensation back.” “The thing about the...