Malnutrition is Highly Prevalent in Patients & No Routine Assessment is Performed

BioScan touch i8 a bedside clinical assessment providing healthcare professionals information on patient’s metabolic states in order to help prevent catabolism.

Muscle Mass
Fat Mass
Malnutrition
Body Cell Mass (BCM)
Cellular Biomarker (Phase Angle)
Over Hydration (Excess Fluid)

Dehydration
Total Body Water
Extracellular Fluid
Intracellular Fluid
Fat Free Mass Hyrdration

Older age, malignant disease and major comorbidity are the main contributors to malnutrition.

Assessment of Nutritional and Metabolic status provides valuable information essential to improvement of care plan and helps identify patient’s prehospitalisation status and risk for malnutrition.

Predict Patient outcome
Fast and easy to use
Inexpensive

Not time-consuming
Evaluate the effects of over or underfeeding

Weight loss and nutritional decline have been associated with adverse patient outcomes as well as increased complications. Long hospitalisations, increases the risk of unplanned hospitalisation, disability, and increased overall cost of care.

BioScan touch i8 assessment is important in the treatment of malnutrition. Providing clinicians quick detection of malnutrition and helps guide nutritional therapy. Although advanced cases of malnutrition are often obvious, regular assessment with touch i8 could provide an objective characterisation for detection of premorbid status.

Malnutrition is best managed by providing essential nutritional therapy and serial measurements which confirm the effectiveness of the therapy to ensure that intact, functional body cell mass exists.

Important assessment parameters are those that reflect the status of the components of body cell mass.

Clinical Application

Compartment Syndrome

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Essex, SS6 7XF

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Email: info@maltronint.com

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