From Evidence to Practice

Decreasing Intraoperative Skin Damage in Prone-Position Surgeries

August 1, 2024

Dr Joyce Black in Conversation with Martin Burns

June 27, 2024

  It's not every day that industry is asked by clinicians to comment on its role in clinical practice research and advancement, not least by a clinical practice global leader such as Joyce Black at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Recently, Martin had the privilege to discuss "The Role of Industry in Pressure Injury Prevention"…

Bruin Biometrics Regains Direct Sales and Marketing of its Provizio^® SEM Scanner

June 25, 2024

Bruin Biometrics, LLC ("BBI") today announced that distribution of BBI’s Provizio SEM Scanner, which is designed to modernize pressure injury prevention, is in the process of transitioning from Arjo, Inc. to BBI. As a result, BBI will take back control of the sales and marketing of the Provizio SEM Scanner in a move the company…

A systematic review on the impact of sub-epidermal moisture assessments on pressure ulcer/injury care delivery pathways

June 1, 2024

Aim: To assess all published studies which describe what happens to the delivery of pressure ulcer/injury (PI/PU) care pathways as a result of detecting raised sub-epidermal moisture (SEM) delta (∆ ≥ 0.6).

Is it Time to Re-Evaluate the Inevitability of Ulcers at the End of Life?

June 1, 2024

Impact of Missed Interventions on Tissue Injury Outcomes Identified Via Sub-Epidermal Moisture Scanning

May 1, 2024

Martin Burns, Comments on Importance of the Release of the SEM Assessment Evidence Release

April 15, 2024

Martin Burns, CEO commented that the release of the Evidence Report by Bruin Biometrics “shares an important milestone in the science surrounding the eitiology and pathology of pressure injuries.” The Evidence Report describes a deliberate and sequential research trajectory: Understanding early research and pressure injury etiology Developing the research methods Establishing clinical and financial utility in the…

Martin Burns, CEO Bruin Biometrics talks to digitalhealth journal

April 3, 2024

Martin Burns, CEO of Bruin Biometrics was recently interviewed by health journalist Andrea Chipman from digitalhealth Journal regarding the role technology can play in helping to prevent one of the most challenging patient safety issues: pressure injuries*. Commenting on the challenge Martin stated, “There has been an awful lot of science put into the etiology…

Guideline for Prevention of Perioperative Pressure Injury, 2023, United States Guidelines

March 1, 2024

Recommendation 7.1.1: “Technology-based skin assessments may be used, including tools that focus on the biophysical changes (biocapacitance) such as subepidermal moisture measurement”. Recommendation 7.4.1: “Darkly pigmented skin should be assessed by checking the patients’s skin temperature and the presence of oedema, induration and pain.”

Assessing the Feasibility of Sub-Epidermal Moisture to Predict Erythema and Stage 1 Pressure Ulcers in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study.

February 1, 2024

Aim: To assess the feasibility of obtaining biophysical measures of sub-epidermal moisture (SEM) to predict pressure injuries.