Reduce Unnecessary Hospital Transfers in Care Homes

Support care and nursing home teams with fast, non-invasive bladder assessment that helps staff make safer, more confident decisions - especially during night shifts.

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Objective assessment that supports safer decisions - without disrupting patient comfort

The Problem: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Without objective information, care teams are often required to make escalation decisions based on observation alone. As a result:

  • Staff escalate patients due to uncertainty rather than clinical necessity
  • Residents are sent to hospital unnecessarily
  • Night shifts default to caution when senior support is limited
  • Patients experience distress and disruption from avoidable transfers
  • Valuable staff time and healthcare resources are used inefficiently

This uncertainty is a common challenge in everyday care settings.

Without objective information, staff are often required to make cautious decisions based on incomplete signals - particularly during night shifts.

The Solution: Objective Information at the Point of Care

This uncertainty is a common challenge in everyday care settings.

Bladder scanners provide fast, non-invasive bladder assessment to support everyday decision-making.

In practice, they help teams to:

  • Confirm or rule out urinary retention within seconds
  • Decide more confidently when escalation is genuinely required
  • Avoid unnecessary catheterisation and related complications
  • Support safer, more consistent decisions across shifts

All without invasive procedures or disruption to patient comfort. Bladder scanner is designed to support clinical judgement - not replace it.

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How Care Settings Use Bladder Scanners Day-To-Day

Bladder scanners are used as a practical, non-invasive assessment tool to support everyday decision-making across care settings. Common day-to-day uses include:

  • Suspected urinary retention → Staff perform a quick scan to confirm or rule out retention before deciding on intervention or escalation.
  • Agitation or confusion (particularly in dementia care) → Scanning helps rule out bladder-related causes of distress before attributing symptoms to behavioural or cognitive factors.
  • Suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) → Objective bladder assessment supports more informed decisions before antibiotics are prescribed or referral is considered.
  • Night shifts and out-of-hours care → Scanners provide objective information when senior clinical support may not be immediately available, helping staff act with confidence.
  • End-of-life or frail residents → Non-invasive scanning supports comfort-led care, avoiding unnecessary procedures or distressing transfers.

What a Bladder Scanner Does

Bladder scanners is a non-invasive ultrasound device used to assess bladder volume quickly and safely at the point of care. It supports safer, more confident decision-making across care and clinical settings.


In everyday use, staff perform a short scan that provides an immediate bladder volume reading. This objective information supports decisions around monitoring, intervention, or escalation - without the need for invasive procedures. 


Bladder scanners are designed to:

 

Support clinical judgement, not replace it 
Be easy to use by non-specialist staff 
Fit naturally into routine assessments across care and clinical settings

A non-invasive ultrasound device used to assess bladder volume at the point of care.

Key Benefits of Bladder Scanners

Supporting comfort, dignity, and confident care.

Benefits include:

  • Reduced unnecessary catheterisation and lower risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs)
  • Improved patient comfort, dignity, and overall quality of care
  • Time savings for staff through faster assessment and clearer decision pathways
  • Safer continence and bladder management, supported by objective information
  • Portable, easy-to-use devices suitable for everyday use by non-specialist staff

What’s Included with Oras Medical Bladder Scanners

Every scanner supplied by Oras Medical includes the support needed to ensure safe, effective adoption from day one. This includes:

  • Free onboarding and adoption training for staff
  • Two-year warranty with UK-based support
  • Ongoing guidance to support day-to-day use
  • Help embedding scanning into existing workflows

Our approach is focused on long-term use and confidence - not simply supplying a device.

Every scanner includes onboarding, training, and ongoing support to ensure confident day-to-day use.

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How Teams Typically Justify the Investment

Bladder scanners are introduced as decision-support tools, not cost-cutting measures. In practice, care homes and clinical teams justify the investment through a combination of avoided escalation, reduced interventions, and improved staff efficiency over time.

Teams commonly see value through:

  • Fewer unnecessary hospital transfers made “to be safe”
  • Reduced precautionary catheterisation and related complications
  • Faster assessments during busy periods or night shifts
  • More confident, documented decisions that support governance and audits

For many settings, avoiding even a small number of unnecessary escalations each year is often sufficient to justify the investment.

Actual outcomes vary by setting and usage. The aim is better decision-making - not forced financial targets.

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