Wound Care Solutions with SnapshotNIR
Benefit both your patient outcomes and your practice
Current diagnostic tools to assess tissue health are either costly or difficult to employ (or both), and visual assessment alone is not adequate to see the whole picture. There are no easy or cost-effective ways to directly assess tissue viability.
Enter, SnapshotNIR, an easy to use, cost-effective, and repeatable tool to assess and track the tissue oxygen level in a patient, whether at a wound site or in an area of vascular concern.
Cellular and/or Tissue Products (CTPs)
The most costly CTP is the one that fails.
Gain confidence that the CTP application will successfully integrate into the wound tissue.
Using near-infrared spectroscopy imaging with SnapshotNIR can be very helpful in delivering better outcomes with respect to CTPs. SnapshotNIR can assist in identifying if a CTP will successfully integrate into the wound tissue and promote angiogenesis by identifying a well-prepared and oxygenated wound bed.
How does it provide these benefits?
• The easily captured images help to quickly assess the vascular status of the wound bed and peri-wound. Is there adequate perfusion and oxygenation to support the procedure?
• The tissue oxygenation images help “see”, or validate when a wound bed is optimally prepared with adequate oxygenation in all regions of the peri-wound and the wound margin, which is more likely to lead to adherence, integration and tissue granulation for expedited healing rather than to failure.
• Using the built-in measurement tools, you can document the wound size area and linear dimensions to help select the best size of tissue application, reducing potential product wastage.
• Healing can be tracked and documented, with the image reports easily added to the patient record. These documented reports can be used to support medical necessity and proof of therapeutic efficacy for 3rd party reimbursement.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
Looking for a better way to support payment for your HBOT services?
Qualify HBOT candidates, then track and document therapeutic efficacy.
SnapshotNIR‘s near-infrared spectroscopy imaging not only helps to qualify a patient for hyperbaric oxygen treatment and to clearly document ongoing therapeutic efficacy, but it also aids in keeping patients engaged and committed to the treatment program by effectively demonstrating improvements to tissue health following each set of dives.
How does it provide these benefits?
• With the click of a button on the hand-held device, you can capture images to assess tissue response to this advanced therapy. These images help to confirm qualification for continued hyperbaric oxygen treatment.
• Due to its ease of use in assessing tissue response to therapy, more patients can be screened and qualified for HBOT treatment with expedited referrals.
• When patients see progress occurring below the surface – something they cannot see with their eyes – they are much more likely to comply with the full course of treatment.
• The data captured helps the clinician evaluate and document therapeutic efficacy. This supports the decision on how many dives are effective for each patient, helping to keep your chambers full of patients deriving treatment benefits. The images also help to indicate when it is time to stop.
• The images captured and compared with each dive cycle provide medical necessity documentation for continued efficacy, which may help to expedite approval from 3rd party payors for the continuation of treatment.
“Utilization of SnapshotNIR may provide the documentation required to substantiate medical necessity for HBOT. Using an average of 25 hyperbaric treatments as the usual course of therapy, insights obtained from SnapshotNIR could help prevent the loss of $12,000-$25,000 per patient, depending on the payor.”
Wound Monitoring & Assessment
‘Time is tissue’ yet effective wound assessment can be a real challenge.
Obtain actionable data at every visit to assess, track and document medical necessity, evaluate the therapeutic efficacy, and record outcomes.
Using near-infrared spectroscopy imaging with SnapshotNIR provides a clinician with near-instantaneous insight into “what lies beneath,” through the capture and display of tissue oxygenation in and around a wound. This actionable data can improve in situ decision-making to impact patient outcomes and provides the ability to easily track and document medical necessity, therapeutic efficacy, and results.
How does it provide these benefits?
• As a non-invasive tissue assessment device, Snapshot can triage patients earlier in the care process and expedite referral to integrated specialties, including vascular, enhancing interdisciplinary communication.
• Using the oxygenation data provided, Snapshot helps focus on wound bed preparation helping to guide how much tissue to debride. Capturing images pre-and post-intervention gives timely feedback which can positively impact the clinician’s next move.
• If a treatment path is not providing the expected benefits, Snapshot can support the decision to implement a change more quickly to expedite wound healing.
• Snapshot provides the ability to capture linear and area measurements directly on the images and store these in the patient record for easy numerical and visual comparison over time, speeding-up clinical workflow.
• Healing can be tracked and documented with Snapshot, with image reports easily added to the patient record. These documented reports can be used to support medical necessity and proof of therapeutic efficacy for 3rd party reimbursement.
Helps to provide an interdisciplinary means of communication to support the bridging of the gap in limb preservation management.
To stay on top of Kent news, sign up for our quarterly newsletter here which features the latest clinical publications, case studies, customer stories, expert interviews, and more.
If you’d like to view webinars and clinical education features, we suggest viewing our webinar page.