Instructions For Use How To Use Visitrak - Quick Guide - Smith & Nephew VISITRAK Digital Manuel D'instruction

3. Instructions for Use
How to use VISITRAK – Quick Guide
1
To get started, slide off the grey compartment
and insert batteries as indicated.
4
Place the grid area over the wound.
Position the top of the tracing grid in the
direction of the patients' head.
7
Remove the contaminated wound contact
layer from the tracing grid quickly and
carefully. Dispose of as clinical waste.
10
Whilst holding the coversheet/tracing grid
securely on the surface of the unit, trace
the wound outline on the grid without lifting
the stylus. Ensure that tracing is started and
finished at the same point.
2
The switch is located under the top-right ridge
of the device. Press this to turn on VISITRAK
Digital.
5
Trace around the edge of the wound
margin onto the grid using a permanent
marker pen. Care must be taken to remain
within the grid area.
8
Place the tracing grid on the surface of the
VISITRAK Digital unit, fitting the holes in the
tracing grid over the pegs on the unit surface.
If available, place the coversheet on top of
the tracing grid and secure over the pegs on
VISITRAK Digital.
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88.9
2
cm
When processing is complete the device
will BEEP and display the area measurement
2
in cm in the digital display.
3
Remove the white backing layer from
VISITRAK Grid.
6
If the wound is too large to fit within the
grid area of one tracing grid, overlap two
tracing grids and trace the wound across both
grids.
9
Place the stylus at a point on the wound
tracing and press the switch on the stylus and
wait until the tracing symbol appears in the
display.
12
Place VISITRAK Depth into the deepest
part of the wound and measure the depth
using the scale.
Dispose of VISITRAK Depth as clinical
waste.
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