From Evidence to Practice

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.

Regulators Recognize the Provizio^® SEM Scanner

January 29, 2024

Provizio® SEM Scanner Achieves Expanded FDA Claims and CMS Procedure Code in the United States, and Drug Tariff Listing in the United Kingdom, Further Advancing Pressure injury* prevention for Patients and Providers. Los Angeles/London January 29th, 2024 Bruin Biometrics LLC announces repeated formal recognition of the role of sub-epidermal moisture (SEM) in the identification of…

Shedding New Light for Nurses: Enhancing Pressure Injury Prevention Across Skin Tones with Sub-epidermal Moisture Assessment Technology

January 19, 2024

Decreasing Pressure Injuries in Long-term Care: A Quality Improvement Project

December 1, 2023

Bruin Biometrics CEO Martin Burns Presents the SEM Assessment Clinical Data Journey at EPUAP 2023

November 2, 2023

EPUAP held their Annual Meeting September 13-15th, 2023, in Leeds, United Kingdom. This meeting is the foremost event sharing the latest science in Pressure Ulcer Prevention across Europe each year. EPUAP was created in 1996 to lead and support all European countries in the efforts to prevent and treat pressure ulcers; their vision is “To…

Validation of a sub-epidermal moisture scanner for early detection of pressure ulcers in an ex vivo porcine model of localized oedema

November 1, 2023