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When Mark’s father was admitted to the hospital after a stroke, the family didn’t think much about the mattress he was lying on. It looked ordinary enough—until they noticed it was quietly moving him from side to side every few minutes, adjusting pressure points, and somehow keeping him comfortable during weeks of immobility.
What they were seeing was the result of 30 years of engineering focused on solving one specific medical problem: how to prevent pressure injuries in patients who can’t move themselves. The automated lateral turning mattress had become so refined that it did its job almost invisibly.
The Problem That Drove Innovation
Pressure injuries develop when blood flow gets cut off to skin and tissue, usually because someone can’t shift their weight naturally. For patients recovering from strokes, spinal injuries, or major surgeries, this becomes a serious medical issue that can complicate recovery and extend hospital stays.
Traditional prevention relied on nurses manually turning patients every couple of hours. But hospitals are unpredictable places—emergencies happen, staff get pulled away, and sometimes those crucial repositioning schedules get missed.
ABeWER started working on this challenge in the early 1990s, when automated solutions were clunky, loud, and often created more problems than they solved. The goal was simple: build a mattress that could do what healthy bodies do naturally during sleep.
Three Systems Working as One
The multiTURN® 6 combines three different approaches to pressure management. First, automatic lateral turning gently rocks patients from side to side, mimicking natural sleep movement. Second, alternating pressure technology cycles different air chambers to redistribute weight continuously. Third, continuous low pressure management maintains baseline comfort across the entire surface.
Getting these three systems to work together…
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