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System to Allow Off Site Monitoring of Pressure Ulcers for Patients in a Rural Long-Term Care Facility

Award Number: R43AG092272
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2025
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2026

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System to Allow Off Site Monitoring of Pressure Ulcers for Patients in a Rural Long-Term Care Facility - Abstract This phase I will show the feasibility of an imaging instrument to assist an individual caregiver in monitoring deep pressure tissue injuries (DPTIs). Patients that are immobile, are insensate, choose to not move can develop pressure ulcers (PUs). These PUs should be examined for their skin integrity on a frequent basis. This project will develop a system to allow an untrained caregiver to collect visual and thermal images that provide remote wound assessment. The capture of both visual and thermal images provides the benefit of wound assessment for patients with different skin tones including darkly pigmented skin. For the individual caregiver the practical process of obtaining a digital image is very difficult because they normally would use both hands to reposition the patient to get a good field-of-view of the PU. In low-income rural nursing homes with minimal staff, they may not have the ability to both position a patient into a natural light setting and to operate the camera. The innovation is to combine a very miniature thermal image camera and visible image camera on a low-cost head mounted display. This will allow one caregiver to position the patient, aim the imager and acquire the new image of the PU for remote assessment. A smartphone connected with the head- mounted display would send the images to a wound specialist for the remote clinical assessment.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $499,921 )
2025	2025	APPLIED UNIVERSAL DYNAMICS, CORP	23875 CHESTNUT DR	LORETTO	MN	55357	HENNEPIN	USA	Aging Research	000	1	9/18/2025	NEW	$499,921
														Subtotal = $499,921

Grand Total All Awards = $499,921

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System to Allow Off Site Monitoring of Pressure Ulcers for Patients in a Rural Long-Term Care Facility

Award Number: R43AG092272

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2025

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2026

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