Thermidas is exhibiting at the National Care Home Conference in Glasgow.
This year’s conference will bring together a diverse array of voices from across the care home sector, including industry experts, policymakers, and frontline caregivers.
Pressure injuries are a common problem in many care homes. Infrared thermography has great value of clinical application in daily pressure injury assessment (1). It can objectively and accurately detect pressure injuries 1 day before visual detection and is therefore able to guide prevention earlier than would otherwise be possible (2).
A trial run of a Thermidas thermal imaging system was conducted in a Finnish care home in May-June 2024. All the participating workers were positive that thermal imaging will make risk assessment and prevention of pressure ulcers significantly easier.
(1) Fuman Cai, 2020. Application of infrared thermography in the early warning of pressure injury: a prospective observational study.
(2) Jiang et al, 2022. Application of an infrared thermography-based model to detect pressure injuries: a prospective cohort study