“The times I’ve been worried about developing a pressure
ulcer have been awful as life literally has to stop.”
Karen Darke, British Paralympian
The cutting-edge technology facilitating a 91% reduction in pressure ulcer (PU) incidence1
The SEM Scanner has received a MedTech Innovation Briefing (MIB), part of NICE advice. MIBs are commissioned by NHS England and are designed to support NHS and social care commissioners and staff who are considering using new medical devices.
PROBLEM The care of pressure ulcers, around 95%2
of which are avoidable, places a
significant drain on healthcare services in the UK. Research from NHS Improvement shows that treating pressure damage costs the NHS more than £3.8m per day, and that a huge 1,700-2,000 patients per month develop PUs.3
The impact that PUs have on sufferers’ lives was highlighted by British Paralympian Karen Darke, who said, “The times I’ve been worried about developing a pressure ulcer have been awful. You have to
cancel all commitments. It literally means shutting your life down and calling friends to help you with daily things, and that’s emotionally quite distressing.”
SOLUTION Key to successful management of PUs is early identification of increased risk and intervention to prevent tissue damage. The SEM Scanner from BBI Europe Ltd is a handheld, wireless device which offers game-changing technology, objectively alerting clinicians to specific anatomical areas of a patient’s body at increased risk for developing pressure damage4
,
meaning patient risk assessments are performed before visible damage manifests at the skin surface – a world and clinical first.
The SEM Scanner has been found, when used as an adjunct to current standard of care, to identify increased risk of pressure ulceration on the sacrum and heels five days (median)4
before it becomes visible
on the skin surface. Not all incipient damage will progress to a pressure ulcer especially when anatomically-specific interventions are applied before damage manifests at the skin’s surface. The SEM Scanner has been shown to result in an 91% (average, weighted) reduction in hospital acquired pressure ulcers.1
EVIDENCE St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight NHS Trust used the SEM Scanner and evaluated how early identification of increased risk and support for nurses in delivering effective care, resulting in a complete elimination of hospital- acquired pressure ulcers in those wards during the evaluation.5
Glenn Smith, former Tissue Viability and Patient Safety Lead, Isle of Wight NHS Trust said: “The SEM Scanner could be a frontline technology that could transform how we care for patients at risk of pressure ulcers.”
To hear more from Karen on her experiences with pressure ulcers, see:
https://sem-scanner.com/sem-scanner-patient-stories/
1 Hancock K., Lawrance R. (2019). Integrating Early Detection of Pressure Ulcers (PU) into Universal Prevention Pathways. Accepted and presented at NPUAP, USA.
2 Findlay D. (1996) Practical management of pressure ulcers. American Family Physician. 54(5), 1519-28, 1533. 3 NHSi. (2018) Pressure ulcers: revised definition and measurement. Summary and recommendations 4 Okonkwo H. Milne et al. (2018). Evaluation of a Novel Device Using Capacitance of the Detection of Early Pressure Ulcers (PU), a Multi-Site Longitudinal Study. Accepted and presented at NPUAP, USA.
5 Smith G. (2019) Improved clinical outcomes in pressure ulcer prevention using the SEM scanner. Journal of Wound Care, 28(5).
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