Key takeaways – This meta-analysis published in Advances in Skin & Wound Care confirms that real-time pressure monitoring systems can reduce the risk of pressure injuries by up to 88%, demonstrating their effectiveness as a clinical prevention tool.
At the Johns Hopkins Burn Center, real-time pressure mapping reduced the hospital-acquired pressure injury rate by 44.4%, eliminated full-thickness pressure injuries, and lowered costs by 43.8%, demonstrating significant effectiveness in the burn ICU.
In a retrospective analysis at Henry Ford Hospital’s medical ICU, continuous bedside pressure mapping reduced pressure ulcer incidence by 94% and was reported by staff to improve repositioning effectiveness, comfort, and adherence to protocols.
At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, real-time pressure visualization was used in 46 patients across 509 patient-days, resulting in zero new pressure injuries, high clinician satisfaction, improved repositioning effectiveness and patient comfort.
This real-world clinical poster from Floyd Medical Center shows that using a real-time pressure visualization monitor led to a 71% reduction in hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) over 5 months in the critical care unit, by guiding staff to reposition patients more effectively and reduce peak pressure exposures.
This Floyd Medical Center poster showed that using real-time pressure monitoring reduced hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) by nearly 90% and enabled staff to maintain peak pressures below ~45 mmHg, a threshold associated with significantly lower HAPI rates.
A clinical poster from the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital (VISN 8) showed that with pressure visualization technology, 90% of high-risk spinal cord injury patients avoided new pressure injuries, and existing Stage 2 injuries healed when pressure was reduced.
At the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center, a stepwise prevention program that included real-time pressure visualization reduced preventable pressure ulcers (PPUs) from 5 per quarter to 0, maintaining 0 PPUs across 2 consecutive quarters.
At Villa Maria Care Center, Continuous Bedside Pressure Mapping over two months prevented all new pressure ulcers in 15 high-risk residents, supported healing of existing ulcers with no recurrence, and became an integral part of the pressure ulcer prevention program.
At White Oak of Rock Hill, no new pressure ulcers developed in 22 high-risk residents monitored with bedside pressure visualization, while existing ulcers showed 30–76% surface area reduction within 9 weeks