The UK has been recognised for leading the way in the use of a pioneering burn wound care technology.
NHS nurses and doctors at five UK hospitals are the first in the world to use Spectral AI’s DeepView™ which employs multispectral imaging and artificial intelligence to provide information about burn wounds which is not visible to the human eye.
It can be used from the day an injury occurs, giving doctors and nurses a prediction of how patients’ burn wounds will heal in less than a second which they can then use alongside their clinical judgement to quickly determine the best course of treatment for a patient.
At a recent conference organised by the British Burn Association and the International Society for Burn Injuries, experts from Newcastle’s Northern Regional Burn Centre shared their experiences of using the technology with healthcare professionals from around the globe.
Consultant Burn Surgeon Christopher Lewis said: “Newcastle was the first centre in the world to trial DeepView™ and we’re very proud to have hosted it over the last few months across our adult service.
“We’re a service where laser doppler imaging (LDI) is very heavily ingrained which can be used 48 hours after a burn injury for assessments but DeepView™ can be used on day one.
“We’ve been able to use it on the wards, we’ve taken it to theatres and have compared our clinical information with how the device is interpreting the wound depth.”
Mr Lewis revealed DeepView™ has so far been used in Newcastle in 41 cases involved adults aged between 19 and 85.
He said his colleagues thought the portability of the device and the timing of its scans were ‘excellent’ and its images and photo quality were ‘very good’.
Among those present at the conference was Dr. Jeffrey Carter, the Medical Director for the University Medical Center Burn Unit in New Orleans and faculty surgeon at Louisiana State University Health Sciences.
He met with the Newcastle team and said: “I really want to thank my colleagues here in the UK because you truly are the first that can use this to gain real-world experience and evidence. Your findings confirm that DeepView™ is going to change burn care today.”
He said: “I really want to thank my colleagues here in the UK because you truly are the first that can use this to gain real-world experience and evidence.”
Prof. Paul Chadwick, Vice President of Spectral AI in the UK, added the interest in DeepView™ from healthcare professionals at the conference had been ‘incredible’.
He said: “We’ve had interest from across the globe, with lots of American and European healthcare professionals wanting to know about the technology and when can they get it.
“People can see the real value in the technology and how it might change the way they can care for their patients.”
To learn more about DeepView™ go to https://www.spectral-ai.com/.
