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New Technology Significantly Reduces Rates of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries
Institutions that have deployed the LEAF Patient Monitoring System, a tool which allows caregivers to more effectively manage patient turning protocols, have experienced significant decreases in rates of pressure injuries. An analysis involving over 10,000 patients reveals the strong protective…
“Turning” to technology: Reducing pressure injury incidence in critical care with turn cueing
Learn about the relationship between low adherence to turn protocols and the growing number of hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) -- and how the LEAF System has been shown to help, both clinically and financially.
7M hours of data from 60K+ patients: LEAF Patient Monitoring System helps reduce the incidence of HAPIs
Wireless, wearable patient monitoring technology suggests the nation’s hospitals could avoid billions of dollars inpatient treatment costs by preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries.
Pressure Injury Prevention Guideline Offers Sweeping Recommendations to Protect Patients
Recently updated international clinical practice guidelines recommend several important new strategies to combat HAPIs, including patient repositioning using tools such as wireless patient monitoring systems.
Technical Description: Comprehensive Technical Details of the Leaf Patient Monitoring System
A detailed description of the architecture and how the Leaf system works to provide insight into how the system can be configured to accommodate various IT infrastructures and caregiver workflows. This paper is written for information technology (IT) specialists, biomedical engineers,…
Technical Overview of the LEAF Patient Monitoring System
This paper presents a brief overview of the technical attributes of the LEAF Patient Monitoring System. The LEAF Patient Monitor is a system that enables hospitals, long-term care facilities (LTC), and nursing homes to wirelessly monitor the real-time orientation and activity of patients…
The Role of Manual Patient Turning in Preventing Hospital Acquired Conditions
Manual turning of patients has many benefits beyond pressure injury prevention. It is the first step in early mobilization of bedbound patients to prevent cardiovascular and musculoskeletal effects of immobility, such as a change in muscle and/or bone mass and a reduction in plasma volume.…
New Technology Significantly Reduces Rates of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries
Institutions that have deployed the LEAF Patient Monitoring System, a tool which allows caregivers to more effectively manage patient turning protocols, have experienced significant decreases in rates of pressure injuries. An analysis involving over 10,000 patients reveals the strong protective…