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Spectral MD Announces Podium Presentation at 2023 American Burn Association Annual Conference
Podium Presentation Highlights Opportunity to Improve Burn Wound Healing Assessment LONDON & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Spectral MD Holdings, Ltd. (AIM: SMD),
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nPodium Presentation Highlights Opportunity to Improve Burn Wound Healing Assessment\n\n\n LONDON & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nSpectral MD Holdings, Ltd. (AIM: SMD), an artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on the development of faster and more accurate medical diagnostics for treatment decisions in wound care, announced today that it has been selected for a podium presentation entitled, “Burn Injury Assessment Study (BIAS): Is There Room to Improve?” at the American Burn Association Annual Conference to take place in Dallas, Texas, May 18th, 2023. The presentation will be delivered by Jeffrey Carter, MD, FACS, Medical Director of University Medical Center New Orleans Burn Center & Associate Professor of Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Chief Medical Consultant of Spectral MD.\n\n\nThe objective of the IRB-approved, prospective Burn Injury Assessment Study (BIAS) was to evaluate the performance of burn care professionals in determining areas of non-healing tissue in burn wounds. Physicians use visual inspection as the exclusive tool for determining burn severity; unfortunately, the correct determination of burn depths using this approach is extremely low with prior studies demonstrating accuracy as low as 41% on the day of injury.\n\n\nIn this study, participating burn care professionals were presented with five burn images to review and provide input on an electronic tablet at two regional and national burn conferences. They were given a brief clinical synopsis and asked to highlight areas of non-healing wounds. The results showed that participating burn care professionals recorded 73% accuracy in assessing burn healing, which is consistent with prior studies from literature. In 18% of non-healing wounds, however, participants incorrectly selected areas which would need local wound care versus advanced interventions (like surgery).\n\n\n“The results of this study validate our prior work in the field and further suggest that gaps exist within our healthcare system with respect to burn wound assessment,” said Dr. Carter, Principal Investigator. “In the study, 42% of trained healthcare professionals believed that advanced care or surgery was necessary for burn wounds that would heal with local care alone. This disparity highlights the need for technologies, such as Spectral MD’s DeepView® imaging p...