Finding a Better Path to Healing for Deep Tissue Pressure Injuries

In a study published in 2025¹, Dr. Mark McIntosh, MD, MPH and a team of researchers compared healing outcomes in patients with deep tissue pressure injuries (DTPis) who were treated on air­fluidized therapy (AFT) versus low-air-loss (LAL) beds. 

The team reviewed 18 patients from an academic Level 1 Trauma Center (2018-2020), analyzing wound size changes from initial diagnosis to worst and final measurements. This whitepaper explores the study's findings and examines how AFT technology can provide superior offloading, microclimate control and shear reduction to improve OTPI healing compared to LAL beds.¹

In addition to the study's findings, this whitepaper shares:²

• Challenges of preventing pressure injuries using conventional surfaces 
• How air-fluidized therapy differs from low-air-loss beds 
• A sampling of other studies, beyond McIntosh's findings, investigating AFT's benefits across a wide range of use cases 

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