Scanner Helps Find Areas Most at Risk to Develop Pressure Ulcers
Bruin Biometrics (BBI) is looking to shake up the way patients are assessed for pressure ulcers with its SEM scanner. FDA granted de novo marketing authorization for the device which can help uncover a patient’s risk for bedsores and gauge whether there is tissue damage.
The current standard for assessing pressure ulcers requires clinicians or healthcare givers to visually inspect patients' skin and remember to turn them over in their beds every few hours. The current standard also relies on risk assessment scales that judge which patients are most at risk for developing pressure ulcers and monitor them.
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Source: MDDI - January 9, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Business Sterilization Source Type: news
Bruin Biometrics ’ bedsore scanner wins de novo FDA approval
Bruin Biometrics’ SEM Scanner
Bruin Biometrics said it has landed FDA de novo clearance for its SEM Scanner, a wireless, handheld device to help assess patients at increased risk for pressure ulcers.
The scanner is a novel device that can objectively alert clinicians to specific anatomical areas of a patient’s body at increased risk for developing pressure damage before that damage is visible at the skin surface. Pressure sores typically appear at areas of bony prominence, such as the heels and sacrum.
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Source: Mass Device - January 7, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Nancy Crotti Tags: Blog Source Type: news
Acelity ’ s KCI inks NPWT remote monitoring deal with insurer Highmark
Acelity subsidiary KCI said this week that it inked a negative pressure wound therapy remote monitoring deal, using its iOn Progress remote therapy monitoring program, with health insurer Highmark, touting it as the first such agreement of its kind.
The San Antonio-based company’s KCI iOn monitoring program is intended for use with the ACTIV.A.C therapy system, and includes monitoring, engagement and adherence components. KCI said that a remote monitoring device attached to the ACTIV.A.C system allows it to transmit data to KCI, where a team of virtual therapy specialists analyze data and use it to support healthca...
Source: Mass Device - December 20, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Patient Monitoring Wound Care Acelity Kinetic Concepts Inc. Source Type: news
NHS aims to become 'world's safest health service'
It plans to cut avoidable harm in key areas including sepsis, pressure ulcers and infections Related items fromOnMedica Plans to move patients out of long-stay hospitals NHS is failing patients with mental health problems Practices need to seize the opportunity of consolidating IT systems Hunt announces 11 hospital trusts in special measures Building an inclusive digital health and care service (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - December 17, 2018 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Hospice wins award for innovation in pressure ulcer prevention
A hospice in North East England has received national recognition for its “pioneering” use of technology to prevent pressure ulcers. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - November 30, 2018 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Cumbria nurses help reduce hospital pressure ulcers by 61%
A leading nurse has said “continual push and motivation” from care staff is behind her trust’s success in slicing the number of patients experiencing pressure ulcers in hospital by 61% in two years. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - November 15, 2018 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Pressure Ulcer Rates Only Decreasing for Less Severe Sores
TUESDAY, Nov. 6, 2018 -- The incidence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is much lower based on administrative data than chart review data, and decreases in incidence appear to be only seen with less severe sores, according to a study... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 6, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Smith & Nephew launches portable negative pressure wound therapy system
[Image from Smith & Nephew]Smith & Nephew announced today that it has launched its Pico 7Y single-use negative pressure wound therapy system (sNPWT) in Europe.
The system features AirLock technology and includes an integrated Y extension that allows for two dressings to be used from one pump to allow for two wounds to be treated at the same time.
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Source: Mass Device - October 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Wound Care Smith & Nephew Source Type: news
Negative-pressure Wound Therapy May Curb Laparotomy Infections Negative-pressure Wound Therapy May Curb Laparotomy Infections
Pooled data suggest that prophylactic wound dressings under negative pressure can reduce surgical site infections (SSI) in closed laparotomy incisions, according to researchers in Ireland.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - October 5, 2018 Category: Surgery Tags: General Surgery News Source Type: news
Judge slaps lawyers with $1.4m in fines over $645m KCI trade theft case
A federal judge this week slapped lawyers representing Healthcare Essentials in a trade theft lawsuit brought by Acelity subsidiary Kinetic Concepts Inc. with some $1.4 million in fines for their part in the case.
Earlier this month KCI was awarded $645 million in damages after winning the suit. KCI accused Healthcare Essentials of stealing its VAC negative pressure wound therapy, rebranding and selling it as its own. In that decision, Judge Benita Pearson, of the U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio, found that defendants engaged in “flagrant discovery abuses,” including filing false affidavits, refusing to pro...
Source: Mass Device - September 21, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Featured Legal News Wound Care Acelity Health Essentials Kinetic Concepts Inc. Source Type: news
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Also: Two telemedicine companies expand their reach, a new sensor for preventing pressure ulcers. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - September 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Acelity ’ s KCI wins $645m in trade theft suit
Acelity subsidiary Kinetic Concepts Inc was awarded $645 million in trebled damages in a suit against Healthcare Essentials Inc in which KCI alleges that the company stole its VAC negative pressure wound therapy technology, rebranded it and sold it as its own, according to recently released court documents.
US District Judge Benita Pearson said that defendants in the case, which included Healthcare Essentials and select executives from the company, engaged in “flagrant discovery abuses,” including filing false affidavits, refusing to produce relevant communications and documents, fabricating invoices and inventory sp...
Source: Mass Device - September 11, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Legal News Acelity Kinetic Concepts Inc. Source Type: news
UIC to lead study of negative pressure wound therapy in obese and diabetic patients
(University of Illinois at Chicago) With a $1.7 million, two-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers in the University of Illinois at Chicago Epicenter for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections -- one of six such centers funded by the CDC -- will determine whether negative pressure wound therapy can help reduce the incidents of surgical site infections in obese and diabetic patients. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
It ’ s time to value our care workers
If there was just one point that Mandy Buckley could convince her employer of, it would be to value care workers properly.
“I’ve been a care worker for 17 years now,” she says.
Mandy is part of Birmingham City Council’s enablement team – a dedicated, qualified and experienced group that is “the first port of call when somebody comes out of hospital”.
Patients are first assessed in hospital before being discharged. Then the enablement team takes up the baton.
Initially, the team works with the discharged person for up to six weeks as a care provider, all the while continuing to assess what sort of care package...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - September 3, 2018 Category: Food Science Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article adult social care Birmingham care workers local government Source Type: news
It ’ s time to value our carers
If there was just one point that Mandy Buckley could convince her employer of, it would be to value carers properly.
“I’ve been a carer for 17 years now,” she says.
Mandy is part of Birmingham City Council’s enablement team – a dedicated, qualified and experienced group that is “the first port of call when somebody comes out of hospital”.
Patients are first assessed in hospital before being discharged. Then the enablement team takes up the baton.
Initially, the team works with the discharged person for up to six weeks as a care provider, all the while continuing to assess what sort of care package they requir...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 3, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article adult social care Birmingham care workers local government Source Type: news
