1. Purpose of Cicatrix
Cicatrix is a clinical support tool designed to help healthcare workers organize wound-related information and review possible treatment considerations. The information generated by Cicatrix is intended to support clinical thinking, documentation, and care planning.
Cicatrix does not diagnose patients, prescribe treatment, replace medical decision-making, or independently determine a patient’s plan of care.
All outputs from Cicatrix should be treated as items to consider, not as final medical recommendations.
2. Not a Replacement for Clinical Judgment
Cicatrix is not a substitute for the professional judgment, training, experience, or decision-making of licensed healthcare workers.
Healthcare providers remain solely responsible for evaluating each patient, interpreting clinical findings, reviewing medical history, assessing risks, confirming diagnoses, determining appropriate treatments, and following applicable laws, regulations, facility policies, payer requirements, and standards of care.
The use of Cicatrix does not remove or reduce the responsibility of the treating clinician or healthcare organization.
3. Treatment Considerations Only
Any treatment options, wound care suggestions, dressing considerations, debridement considerations, offloading suggestions, compression considerations, infection-related prompts, vascular prompts, or other outputs generated by Cicatrix are provided for informational and educational support only.
These outputs are not orders, prescriptions, protocols, standing orders, or mandatory instructions.
Before acting on any information generated by Cicatrix, the healthcare worker must independently determine whether the information is clinically appropriate for the specific patient.
4. Patient-Specific Care Required
Wound care decisions must be based on the patient’s full clinical picture, including but not limited to patient history, wound type, wound location, wound measurements, tissue characteristics, drainage, odor, infection signs, pain, perfusion status, vascular studies, pressure risk, diabetic status, nutrition, medications, allergies, comorbidities, mobility, goals of care, facility resources, and provider scope of practice.
Cicatrix may not account for all patient-specific details or clinical circumstances.
5. No Emergency or Urgent Care Use
Cicatrix is not intended for emergency medical use. If a patient has signs of a medical emergency, severe infection, sepsis, rapidly worsening wounds, uncontrolled bleeding, acute ischemia, necrotizing infection, or any other urgent condition, follow emergency procedures immediately.
6. Accuracy and Limitations
While Cicatrix is designed to provide helpful wound care considerations, it may produce incomplete, outdated, incorrect, or inappropriate information. Users are responsible for verifying all information before relying on it.
7. Product and Treatment Responsibility
Any mention of a dressing, device, medication, or intervention is for consideration only. Users must review manufacturer instructions, contraindications, warnings, facility policy, and applicable clinical guidelines before using any product or treatment.
8. Scope of Practice
Users are responsible for ensuring that any care decision or procedure is within their professional license, training, competency, and authorized scope of practice.
9. Privacy and Patient Information
Users should only enter information into Cicatrix in accordance with their organization’s privacy policies, HIPAA requirements, and applicable laws. No patient data entered during a session is stored after the page is closed.
10. Acceptance of Terms
By continuing to use Cicatrix, the user acknowledges that Cicatrix is a support tool only and does not replace licensed healthcare professionals, clinical judgment, direct patient assessment, medical orders, or the standards of care required in wound treatment. The user accepts full responsibility for reviewing, verifying, and applying any information generated by Cicatrix before using it in patient care.