Residential Care

DrySense's incontinence monitoring system provides care facilities with technology that increases care quality, simplifies care provision, and minimizes direct and in-direct incontinence-related expenses.

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Caring for incontinent patients is one of the leading causes of employee burnout, compassion fatigue, staffing shortages, and turnover in long-term care facilities. While patient monitoring has evolved alongside technological development, incontinence monitoring is still in the dark ages, where caregivers continue to rely on check schedules. DrySense's technical approach brings incontinence management to the 21st century. The device drastically improves patient care and outcomes, expands clinical capacity, increases incontinence management efficiency, and ultimately conserves care resources.

What Is DrySense ?

DrySense is an incontinence monitoring device that alerts caregivers when a patient urinates or defecates. The sensor is embedded or attached to a patient's wheelchair cushion and monitors the local environment for rapid fluctuations in temperature and humidity. When a person experiences a void event, the temperature and humidity around the pelvic region spikes and the sensor sends an alert to the care provider.

DrySense Description

The device easily installs to any wheelchair cushion.

Monitors the patients for void events and alerts caregivers and managers when a patient requires assistance.

Quick battery charging and only requires cleaning when in contact with void excrement.

Easily transferable between patients with the non-permanent installation method.

Mobile App Description

Care providers receive real-time updates on void event occurrences and patient updates.

Tracks, analyze, and records void event occurrences, response times, and caregiver responsibilities.

Desktop App Description

Dashboard intuitively showcases individual and collective patient void events, response, times, and trends.

Assign caregiver personnel to an individual patient, groups of patients, or facilities.

Review void event history of patients and staff members' responses to improve efficiency and transparency.

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Improve

Improve patient care and outcomes.

DrySense improves the care provider's response time when a patient urinates or defecates. By reducing the time spent in soiled or wet briefs, patients experience a greater comfort level and reduce the risk of incontinence-associated dermatitis, skin breakdown, wounds, and sacral or coccyx pressure injuries, and death.

Increase

Increase care facility efficiency.

DrySense eliminates the need for manual void event monitoring and redundant check schedules. When care providers utilize DrySense's notification system, staff do not expend time and energy managing false-positive void events, resulting in increased efficiency, productivity, and return on labour. Furthermore, DrySense provides facility managers with data analytics to optimize care efficacy and reduce patient-provider-family communication asymmetries.

Decrease

Decrease incontinence-related costs.

In Canada, the direct annual cost of treating incontinence is approximately $13,500 per residential patient. Moreover, incontinence mismanagement can result in secondary treatment costs for incontinence-associated dermatitis and sacral or coccyx pressure injuries. Such treatments reduce clinical capacity and require the extensive use of medical dressings, bandages, antibiotics & antimicrobial agents, and nursing personnel. DrySense improves incontinence management practices, therefore reducing direct and indirect costs of incontinence management and wound treatment.

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