These Clinical Practice Guidelines summarise where organisations have updated their pressure injury prevention guidelines to include using SEM assessment technology to assist healthcare practitioners in preventing pressure injuries.
Compiled by O'Leary C, James Cancer Centre, Ohio: presented by Capasso G, NPIAP 2024
“Use Sub-epidermal Moisture Scanner (SEM) to reduce PI incidence”
NPIAP/EPUAP/PPPIA
“Consider using a sub-epidermal moisture/oedema measurement device as an adjunct to routine clinical skin assessment.”
Recommendation 2.6 (https://www. internationalguideline.com/)
When assessing darkly pigmented skin, “…. consider assessment of skin temperature and sub-epidermal moisture as important adjunct assessment strategies.”
Recommendation 2.7 (https://www. internationalguideline.com/)
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
“Technology-based skin assessments may be used, including tools that focus on the biophysical changes (biocapacitance) such as sub-epidermal moisture measurement”.
Recommendation 7.1.1 (https://aornguidelines.org/guidelines/ content?sectionid=245945765&view=book)
“Darkly pigmented skin should be assessed by checking the patients’s skin temperature and the presence of oedema, induration and pain.”
Recommendation 7.4.1 (https://aornguidelines.org/guidelines/ content?sectionid=245945765&view=book)
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