Medline 推出用于失禁管理的湿度传感技术

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医疗用品和解决方案的制造商和供应商Medline宣布了一种名为FitRightConnectWetness Sensing System的新型用户友好型失禁管理技术。该解决方案结合了特殊的内裤、传感器盒和实时警报，提供数据，消除失禁管理中的猜测，帮助熟练的疗养院居民更长时间地保持干燥。

Medline, a manufacturer and supplier of medical supplies and solutions, announced new user-friendly technology for incontinence management calledFitRightConnectWetness Sensing System. The solution combines special briefs, a sensor pod and real-time alerts to provide data that takes the guesswork out of incontinence management and helps skilled nursing home residents stay dryer longer.

研究表明，疗养院居民尿失禁的患病率高达83.7%。成人内裤是管理尿失禁管理的重要组成部分，但由于居民对常规尿路模式缺乏了解，因此经常被错误使用。根据护理人员的可用性，居民可能会在湿内裤中度过数小时，增加患皮炎或尿失禁相关性皮炎（IAD）的风险。

Studies show that the prevalence of incontinence among nursing home residents isas high as 83.7%. Adult briefs are an important part of managing incontinence management, but are often used incorrectly due to a lack of understanding of regular urinary patterns among residents. Depending on a caregiver's availability, residents may spend hours in a wet brief, increasing the risk of developing dermatitis or incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD).

Medline临床解决方案高级总监Michele Christiansen表示：“我们很高兴将这项新技术引入市场，让护理人员的一天更轻松，同时为居民提供尊严和舒适。”。“Medline是美国最大的成人失禁产品供应商，对我们来说，重要的是要超越提供产品，创造新技术，帮助解决与失禁护理相关的日常任务的挑战。”

“We are excited to introduce this new technology to the market that makes a caregiver's day easier while providing dignity and comfort to a resident,” saysMichelle Christiansen, senior director of clinical solutions for Medline. “Medline is the largest adultincontinenceproducts provider in the U.S. and it was important for us to go beyond providing products and create new technology that will help address the challenges of everyday tasks related to incontinence care.”

支持Wi-Fi的FitRight Connect湿度感应系统提供有关居民排尿模式的实时数据，包括每次湿度事件发生的时间、居民在每次简报中花费的时间以及应用清洁简报之前的时间。这些数据有助于确定每位居民的实际变化率、潜在的如厕时间、护理人员的工作流程模式以及居民护理计划的变化需求。事实证明，利用仪表板数据有助于与家人讨论为亲人提供的失禁护理。

The Wi-Fi enabled FitRight Connect Wetness Sensing System provides real-time data on residents' voiding patterns, including the time each wetness event occurred, the amount of time residents spent in each brief, and the amount of time before a clean brief was applied. This data helps identify the real change rate per resident, potential toileting times, caregiver workflow patterns, and the need for changes in residents' plan of care. Utilizing the dashboard data has proven to be instrumental in conversing with family members about the incontinence care provided for their loved ones.

“我们的护士助理每两个小时检查和更换一次内裤，或者带住客上厕所，这样他们就习惯了这种模式，”总部位于俄亥俄州的Bayley Senior Care的秋季协调员Venus Walker说。

“Our nurse aides have been checking and changing briefs every two hours or take residents to the toilet so they have become used to following that pattern,” saysVenus Walker, fall coordinator atOhio-basedBayley Senior Care.

Bayley开始在一个单位与25名长期护理居民一起试用FitRight Connect，并计划将其推广到其他单位，以帮助改善失禁管理方案。这项技术帮助贝利将居民在脏内裤上花费的时间减少了36.9%，在最初的几周内，对简短更换的平均响应时间加快了31%。

Bayley began trialing FitRight Connect in one unit with 25 long-term care residents with plans to roll it out to additional units to help improve incontinence management protocols. The technology has helped Bayley reduce time residents spend in soiled briefs by 36.9% and the average response time to a brief change was 31% faster in the first few weeks.

Walker补充道：“试验表明，我们的护士可以依靠这项技术来帮助照顾住院医生，并减少不必要地更换住院医生。最大的好处是实时提醒住院医生何时需要更换，这有助于防止住院医生激动，并有助于预防皮肤破裂。”

Walker adds, “The trial showed that our nurses could rely on the technology to help care for residents and cut down on changing a resident unnecessarily. The greatest benefit is the real time alerts for when a resident needs to be changed, which has helped stop a resident from getting agitated and has helped prevent skin breakdown.”

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