Wicked Smart Pad: Washable Sensorized Bedding for the Prevention and Detection of Moisture Events

Wicked Smart Pad：可清洗的感应床上用品，用于预防和检测潮湿事件

• 批准号: 10601816
• 负责人: Allison Truttmann
• 金额: $ 34.27万
• 依托单位: WICKED SHEETS, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2024-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10601816
• 关键词: Activities of Daily Living; Acute; Address; Adult; Aging; Agitation; Alzheimer' s disease patient; Alzheimer' s disease related dementia; Assisted Living Facilities; Beds; Behavior; Bladder Control; Blood Circulation; Businesses; COVID-19 pandemic; Caregivers; Caring; Cellular Phone; Collaborations; Collection; Communication; Computer software; Confusion; Data; Dementia; Dementia caregivers; Detection; Deterioration; Development; Devices; Distress; Dryness; Early Diagnosis; Engineering; Enrollment; Ensure; Environmental Impact; Event; Family member; Feedback; Financial Hardship; Goals; Health; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; Health Personnel; Health care facility; Healthcare Systems; Heart Atrium; Home; Iatrogenesis; Incontinence; Individual; Infection; Intervention; Interview; Kentucky; Kidney; Laundering; Life; Long-Term Care; Marketing; Measures; Methods; Monitor; Neck; Neurologic; New York; Nursing Homes; Organ; Pain; Panic; Patient Care; Patients; Phase; Population; Predisposition; Prevention; Pus; Quality of Care; Quality of life; Reporting; Risk Factors; Sampling; Sensory; Signal Transduction; Site; Skin; Skin injury; Surveys; System; Testing; Time; Update; Urinary tract infection; Urine; Withdrawal; Woman; advanced dementia; aged; community living; comorbidity; dashboard; data exchange; decubitus ulcer; dementia care; design; healthcare community; high risk; improved; innovation; innovative technologies; memory care; mortality; new technology; patient home care; phase 1 study; predictive tools; preference; satisfaction; sensor; sensor technology; supply chain; tool; transmission process; usability; user-friendly; wireless communication; wireless network; wireless sensor; wireless transmission

Project Summary/Abstract: Due to decreased mobility, deterioration in activities of daily living, and neurological decline that contributes to loss of bladder control, incontinence is a leading comorbidity for those individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Further, individuals with incontinence are susceptible to the development of pressure ulcers (PUs), with nearly 40% of advanced dementia patients developing PUs. Rightly, there is heighten concern that increasing rates of dementia will lead to higher rates of PUs, resulting in increased suffering and mortality in the ADRD population. While the impact of PUs in the acute setting is well understood, there is a range of potential iatrogenic skin injuries regarded as an inevitable part of aging that remain underappreciated and under-investigated in ambulatory memory care units and assisted living (AL) facilities. Maintaining skin integrity in ADRD patients is an ever-present challenge for healthcare providers and caregivers, as well as a significant financial burden. Early detection of moisture events mitigates the complications associated with incontinence, improving the quality-of-care patients receive. While efforts have been made to address incontinence through product innovation, none have utilized a fully integrated systems approach that incorporates unobtrusive sensor technology, early detection, and has a positive environmental impact. Wicked Sheets, a Kentucky-based, woman-owned business, has developed the Wicked Smart Pad, a washable and reusable, sensorized bedding pad system. It alerts caregivers when a moisture event occurs via wireless communication, collecting vital information to support the care team. In Phase I, the PI and the collaborating site, Atria Park of Great Neck, New York, will determine the feasibility and usability of the sensorized bedding pad system, evaluate its acceptability by care staff and residents alike. Aims: 1: Evaluate the feasibility, usability, and durability of the Wicked Smart Pad for individuals with ADRD in an assisted living home. 2: Evaluate usage and acceptability of care staff interaction with the Wicked Smart pad. 3: Engineer power-efficient firmware that collects and transmits moisture event data through a HIPAA compliant wireless network, which integrates within the test site’s network on a user-friendly dashboard. At the end of Phase 1, Wicked Sheets will have implemented the Wicked Smart Pad to patients with ADRD in an assisted living community, received feedback on the bedding, hardware, and software from the end-users, and assessed the ability to collect moisture samples. Phase II efforts will include device and firmware enhancements. This novel technology serves as a prevention and intervention tool for care staff, ADRD family members, and the healthcare community at large to reduce the burdens of the workforce and financial strain, enhancing the quality of life and care of those individuals living with ADRD.

项目概要/摘要： 由于活动能力下降、日常生活活动能力下降和神经功能下降， 膀胱失去控制，尿失禁是那些患有阿尔茨海默氏症的人的主要并发症 疾病及相关痴呆（ADRD）。此外，患有尿失禁的个体易受尿失禁的影响。 压力性溃疡（PU）的发展，近40%的晚期痴呆患者发展为PU。 正确的是，人们高度关注痴呆症发病率的增加将导致更高的PU发病率， ADRD人群的痛苦和死亡率增加。虽然PU在急性环境中的影响是好的， 据了解，有一系列潜在的医源性皮肤损伤被认为是衰老不可避免的一部分， 在非卧床记忆护理病房和辅助生活（AL）中， 设施维持ADRD患者的皮肤完整性对医疗保健提供者来说是一个永远存在的挑战， 护理人员，以及重大的经济负担。水分事件的早期检测可缓解 与尿失禁相关的并发症，改善患者接受的护理质量。虽然努力 虽然通过产品创新来解决失禁问题，但没有一个使用完全集成的系统， 这种方法结合了不显眼的传感器技术，早期检测，并具有积极的环境 冲击Wicked Sheets是一家总部位于奥克兰的女性企业，它开发了Wicked Smart Pad， 可清洗和可重复使用的传感器化床垫系统。当发生潮湿事件时，它会通过以下方式提醒护理人员 无线通信，收集重要信息以支持护理团队。在第一阶段，PI和 合作地点，纽约大头的阿特里亚公园，将确定 传感床垫系统，评估护理人员和居民的可接受性。目的：1：评估 Wicked Smart Pad在辅助生活中用于ADRD患者的可行性、可用性和耐用性 回家2：评估护理人员与Wicked Smart pad互动的使用情况和可接受性。3：工程师 高能效固件，可通过符合HIPAA的无线网络收集和传输水分事件数据 网络，它集成在测试站点的网络中，并显示在用户友好的仪表板上。在第一阶段结束时， Wicked Sheets将在辅助生活中为ADRD患者实施Wicked Smart Pad 社区，从最终用户那里收到了关于床上用品、硬件和软件的反馈，并评估了 收集水分样本的能力。第二阶段的工作将包括设备和固件增强。这本小说 技术作为一种预防和干预工具，为护理人员，ADRD家庭成员， 卫生保健界在整个减少劳动力和财政压力的负担，提高 ADRD患者的生活质量和护理。