Apparatus and method of managing pressure injuries

A process of managing pressure injuries, the method comprising:

• providing an array of expandable, compressible cells, each cell having a contact surface with an associated contact pressure, the array of cells including a given cell with a given contact surface, the array of cells also having at least one cell adjacent to the given cell (“adjacent cell”);
• providing a controller comprising hardware, software, or both hardware and software;
• expanding the array of cells with a fluid, each cell having a resultant internal air pressure;
• receiving a body on the expanded array of cells, the body contacting the contact surface(s) of a set of the cells;
• monitoring the contact pressure of the body on the contact surface of each of the set of cells;
• detecting, on the given contact surface of the given cell, a given contact pressure exceeding or equal to a predetermined threshold contact pressure;
• producing, by the controller, a pressure reduction response when detecting that the given contact pressure exceeds or equals the predetermined threshold contact pressure,
• the pressure reduction response automatically causing the controller to modify the internal air pressure of the given cell and the internal air pressure of the adjacent cell in response to detecting the given contact pressure as a function of the threshold contact pressure,
• the pressure reduction response causing the controller to reduce the contact pressure of the given contact surface of the given cell.