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Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and thank you all for joining this SANUWAVE 2019 Annual Earnings Conference. As a reminder, today's meeting is being recorded and all phones participants are in a listen-only mode, but after today's prepared remarks you will have the opportunity to ask questions.
And now to get started with opening remarks and introductions, I'm pleased to turn the floor over to Lisa Sundstrom. Welcome Lisa.
Thank you and good morning. We appreciate your interest in SANUWAVE and in today’s call. SANUWAVE will provide an update on our most recent activities as well as our 2019 annual financial results. Our annual form on form 10-K was filed with the SEC on Monday, March 30, 2020. If you would like to be added to the Company’s distribution list, please call SANUWAVE at 770-419-7525 or go to the Investor Relations section of our website at www.sanuwave.com.
Before we begin, I would like to caution that comments made during this conference call by management will contain certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties regarding the operations and future results of SANUWAVE. We encourage you to review the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation our Forms 10-K and 10-Q, which identify specific factors that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
Furthermore, the content of this conference call contains time-sensitive information that is accurate only as of the date of the live broadcast, March 31, 2020. SANUWAVE undertakes no obligation to revise or update any statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this conference call.
I would now like to turn the call over to our Chairman of the Board, Kevin Richardson. Kevin?
Thank you, Lisa. Normally SANUWAVE uses this year end call to reflect on our milestones achieved during the prior year and lay out our goals for the coming year. It is important to lay out these goals to establish a pathway to achieve our ultimate mission of having a dermaPACE System anywhere and everywhere a wound is treated. Unfortunately, these are not normal times. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the landscape in which we operate and the priorities of many organizations including SANUWAVE must be altered as well.
Our top priority is the safety of our organization, but also making sure we can deliver our services and products to those who need especially in these trying times. Where there is change, there's also opportunity and we will discuss how SANUWAVE has positioned itself to help you with the COVID-19 pandemic. I will briefly review the highlights from the fourth quarter then turn it over to Lisa to walk through the financials, then I will conclude with how we're currently positioned and what are we doing to take advantage of opportunities as they arise during this crisis to help alleviate crisis.
During the fourth quarter and early 2020, we’ve had some major highlights which we would like to share. Recently, we've added Dr. Tom Price to the Board of Directors. As many of you know, if you want to Wikipedia him, you can. Tom was Secretary of Health and Human Services, HHS. After spending many years in Capitol Hill and driving much of the positive changes we see in DC. Tom has already made major impacts at the Board level, and it helps shape some of the critical decisions we have made regarding operations and pursuing opportunities during this pandemic. We're very fortunate to have him as a Board member.
Next, we completed the joint venture in Brazil. We received $500,000 towards the end of 2019. The money is not non-refundable. The joint venture contract has been signed. Unfortunately, under the revenue recognition policy that FASB has in place we thought could, but we cannot recognize this revenue. We will eventually recognize this revenue, but it must be spread out over the term of the joint venture. Although, this makes absolutely zero sense in a way to deal with something structured the way it is or how a normal business-minded person thinks.
It did have an impact on our fourth quarter, as we expected to show 500,000 of revenue driven it did come in as a signed contract and was non-refundable, and other milestones have been met. Aside from the accounting nuances, we are very happy with our partners in the region. We have met with a few of the key opinion leaders and we will be launching in earnest in Brazil later this year after we received ANVISA, which is their equivalent of the FDA. 2021 should shape up to be a very strong year in Brazil post ANVISA.
In other international news during the year, with the additions of new countries and partnerships, one that stands out is Oman, which although a small country, they're the forefront in the Gulf Coast countries in treating DFUs. And we believe this will be the launch pad for the region when things return to normal. We have distribution partners lined up and ready to begin distributing our product in the area, once things are ready to go in 2020. If you've not seen some of the posters or results from the use of Oman, please visit our website. The device is having an amazing impact on many lives in the region. This region is probably showing the greatest growth and diabetic foot ulcers anywhere in the world and will be at the forefront and treating them.
Another highlight in the quarter, we were also successful in raising 5 million capital in two tranches was closed in December and January. This was led by four institutional investors. This funding allows SANUWAVE the path to achieve breakeven profitability later this year. We'll discuss timing of this later in the call, but this event will still happen this year and we were very fortunate to be a company that had prepared with proper funding prior to the pandemic occurring.
We also hit our target of 100 devices shipped during the year and currently have just over 130 placed. This is the key first step in the revenue generating cycle, which we'll discuss later. The hospital placements have grown to a stop due to the pandemic where reps are no longer allowed in hospital settings. We are seeing office placements continued albeit at a slower rate, and most importantly, the mobile home health area showing tremendous potential and growth opportunities for us moving forward.
We will provide updated guidance on 2020 at a later time, but we are again fortunate. We have a device that can be used in the field to treat patients that are unable to get into the hospital for treatment. Other key metrics, we treated over 450 patients with over 3,000 treatments and have over 250 clinicians trained on the system. We actually added partnership with Ametus, which we discussed on the last conference call. Training was completed, devices are being placed and our expectations remain high for this relationship once things open up again. In the meantime, they will also help us on the new home health initiatives in their regions of coverage.
Lastly, we added five additional patents in the U.S., one in Europe covering eight countries. Our patent portfolio will be discussed later on the call when we explore some of the COVID-19 related opportunities. We'll continue to add IP reflective of the scientific knowhow we were also selected in a very exclusive way to be part of the NASA, Lunar Mission Expert Committee. We are helping them currently with some product design for successful Lunar Mission, which will become the base for the Mars missions. Our expertise and knowledge in biofilms and shockwaves are where we will be assisting NASA.
Speaking to biofilm, we have also been selected to work directly with the FDA on a project to educate them on biofilm and eradication. We’ll be working closely with the teams in Maryland in the coming months. All-in-all, 2019 was a good year and within was and still is setting up for a very successful 2020. The one area I will discuss before turning over to Lisa is revenue recognition from procedural revenue. We have chosen an extremely conservative approach to this until we get more information from an actuarial standpoint.
Currently, the way we recognize is after devices place we work to get a signed contract. Less than 50% of our placements have signed contracts at year end, because there's usually a 60-day trial period. After a patient is treated, the claim is submitted. This takes usually 30 to 60 sometimes 90 days. If the claim is submitted properly, we are showing very good results with over 80% of the hospitals receiving payments. This is an extremely strong number for new medical products.
Unfortunately during the quarter we also realized that many of the sites still needed work on how to submit the claims appropriately. We’ve spent much time in the first quarter reviewing and examining these processes with our team and sites in the field. We’ve made our process easier for the billing person and push more support to ensure these claims will be filed the right way the first time.
In summary, although we are seeing treatment volumes continue to increase and accelerate because of the clinical results are so strong, we are having to go back, reeducate and resubmit many of the claims and work with the sites to get the revenue recovered. We have already seen a lot of this progress through March and we'll continue to see even more in April and to push this even greater in the second quarter. As this begins, we'll begin to see rapid procedural revenue growth occur and accelerate. This will happen regardless of any COVID-19 related activities. This is all working directly with the sites as they submit their claims.
At this point I'll turn over Lisa then I'll jump back on and discuss some of the COVID-19 opportunities and how we are managing in 2020.
Thank you, Kevin. Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2019 were 1 million, a decrease of 821,000 or 44% from the prior year. Revenue resulted primarily from sales in Europe and Asia-Pacific of our orthoPACE devices and related applicators. Sales in Asia-Pacific of our dermaPACE devices in related applicators and our first treatment revenue from dermaPACE devices in the United States from the billing in December that Kevin just discussed.
The decrease in revenue in 2019 is due to a decrease in sales of orthoPACE devices, new applicators and refurbishment of applicators in the Asia-Pacific and in the European community. We also had lower license fees related to international joint ventures.
Research and development expenses for the year ended December 31, 2019 were 1.2 million, an increase of $200,000 or 20%. The increase in research and development expenses in 2019 was due to increase contracting expenses for temporary services, increase services related to the dosage study in Poland and increase expenses related to necessary electrical testing for our devices.
Selling and marketing expenses for the year ended December 31, 2019 were 1.6 million, an increase of 1.1 million or 205%. The increase in sales and marketing expenses in 2019 was due to an increase in hiring of client account managers and salespeople, increased travel expenses for placement and training relates to the commercialization of dermaPACE and increased participation in domestic and international trade shows.
General and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2019 were 6.4 million a decrease of 371,000 or 5%. The decrease in general and administrating expenses in 2019 was due to lower stock-based compensation expense, lower lease expense related to the payoff of the lease agreements for devices in 2018 and lower travel and entertainment costs. This was partially offset by increasing consultants related to distribution partner searches and execution, and inventories and regulatory audit fees for updated ISO audit and initial MDSAP audit.
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2019, was $10.4 million, or negative $0.05 per basic and diluted share, compared to a loss of $11.6 million, or negative $0.08 for basic and diluted share for the same period in 2018, a decrease in the net loss of $1.2 million or 10%. The decrease in net loss was probably a result of increase in operating expenses explained above offset by a decrease in interest expense.
We were able to raise $5 million from the institutional equity we have completed in December 2019, with a follow-on completed in February 2020. We continue to protect our burn rate from operations and stretch payables. Our burn rate is currently 450 to 550 per month and has continued at this rate into early 2020.
We'll be looking closely at our burn rate over the next few months as you navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic. We will also be looking at trade show attendance and adjust our spending to only essential items as this progresses. We still anticipate our burn rate to decrease as we move through 2020, as we see payment on dermaPACE procedures and improve our billing and collection processes.
With that, I'll turn it back over to Kevin.
Thanks, Lisa. Normally, we would spend this time laying out our goals for 2020. Given the environment we are in, I think it's most useful to discuss what are we doing to move forward with the COVID-19 crises. First, as I stated earlier, we're very fortunate to raise some funds prior to the pandemic started. Second, even with the pandemic, we're still on track to breakeven later this year either through increased revenue from the existing base of installations or with the home health initiative and other initiatives which we will discuss. By moving quickly to these changes in the environment, we can support our customers and meeting their needs in the field.
Third, we are and have been good about expense management over the years and will continue to be vigorous about that. Lisa alluded to trade shows as an example. Last year alone, we spent over 500,000 probably even more when you include T&E. That is an expense that given the pandemic, we will not be incurring this year which will help us manage our expenses. We're using video conferences and telephone calls to reach our existing and potential new customers. We're doing this both for training and for telemedicine where we can help with wound assessments. Through these other alternatives, like telemedicine and video conferencing, and better expense management, it will help us to get to breakeven.
Fourth, as Lisa alluded to, we're starting off current opportunities for funds coming from the federal government, state government, and we need to make sure they don't come with any provisions which may impact later, but the government is flooding the system right now and we will take advantage of the money where work becomes available and the opportunities exist, but the biggest impacts from COVID will be in three areas for us.
First is home health. Our device is mobile, simple to use, quick to set up and can assist home health, nursing, assisted living and nursing care and with wound care patients. We have spoken to many of our KOLs and the wound industry is changing as we speak, it's changing due to the pandemic. More patients are being treated with telemedicine and home health. They’re being told to stay home, do not come to the hospital.
But for them to get treatment and then avoid infections which lead to amputation, they still need to have treatments and care. This is where dermaPACE works well. You cannot take a hyperbaric chamber to someone's house. You cannot perform a skin graft surgery in someone's house, but you can treat them with the dermaPACE System. Over the past two weeks, we've had many calls with existing and new potential customers and we expect to have many devices placed as mobile units quickly to meet this demand.
We're still working on the economic models because in the home health market they have paid differently than in a hospital. The good news is CMS has recently put in place a waiver call 1135 which allows payments in all settings, office, hospital at home, so our code will work in that environment. We plan to take advantage of that and treat our customers.
The second and third areas may not bring immediate revenue, but we are exploring how our deep scientific knowledge in shockwaves can help with the treatment and benefit in how COVID-19 is treated. We are encouraged by the level of interest we are receiving. This would be more likely to put in place for the second wave, which is expected in the fall of 2020.
So, with our patents IP and abilities, think of some of the things we've done in sterilization and other areas. It'll be crucial in the health market going forward and we expect to be part of the solution to this problem going forward. On these two initiatives, we will update shareholders once we receive orders or results from the clinical work we performing to confirm our capabilities.
In conclusion before I turn it over to Q&A, 2019 was a very good year for us, 2020 it was poised to be a rocket ship for placements in revenue and getting to breakeven. We're fortunate that we have a good balance sheet focused on expense management and are using the device to continue to grow in this uncertain market by moving into the telehealth and home health markets. We have some other announcements in the future with regards to COVID-19 and we still plan to get to breakeven later this year, one way or another.
Without any more, I'll turn it over to Q&A. Thank you.
[Operator Instructions] We'll go first to the line of Ian Miller [ph].
Just quick question on one of the remarks you made about the technology and helping with COVID-19. You mentioned sterilization and then biofilm. Is that something that could have potential application with the use of ventilators?
So, right now what we've done, Ian -- it's a good question, but let me go into, we've done a lot of work with biofilms as many of we had been a partner with the Center for Biofilm Engineering, which is out of Montana State. And we've done some work with the University of Georgia and other areas where we've shown dramatic decreases in biofilm, but we've also seen reduction in staph, E. coli and other bacteria.
And so, we can have a direct impact. Shockwaves have a direct impact on disrupting biofilm and think of things where bad stuff grows. And so, how that is implemented in different settings is how we'll be exploring where and how our device can help with either inside the human body or in the settings in which those humans are treated or with potentially equipment that may be used to assist.
Now, I don't know if that's specific to ventilators or specific anything else, but we do have -- the team has done a good job, a great job, on really pushing the envelope on biofilm. As I mentioned at the beginning of the talk, NASA has picked us as an expert to help on the Lunar Mission because of our expertise in shockwaves and biofilm, And biofilms is a big issue when you're spending that much time in a enclosed environment up in space.
And then with the FDA, we've been picked to help them on understanding how shockwaves can help with prevention and in getting rid of biofilm, but the specific to what area we'll be doing that we're still working on, and we'll have more to report hopefully later in a few weeks on that, but they're exciting areas of play to our strengths and so we are going to be pursuing that.
As I mentioned earlier, we were fortunate to have a board member on board recently who can help us navigate some of that in DC and know where to look and how to get -- how to bring our products to help treat this as fast as we can because it's the sooner we can bring these products to help the better.
The press release that I read this morning mentioned two specific areas and maybe it's too early to say, but how should we think of that, one as in sterilization and then the other in treating the patient or are you not there yet?
It's hard to we're there yet, but I think you're going down the right path. I mean there's a lot of different things that need to happen for treating patients, and if you think about some of the things that shockwaves are capable of, we could be poised to help tremendously with maybe not the cure, but with alleviating some of the sickness and making it easier to for the patients.
But, again, we're still we're probably a few weeks away from having anything that we can specifically point to either in the form of revenue or in clinical work that would lead us to bring it to market but we are definitely pursuing it and you will definitely hear on those on those initiatives in the future.
Next, we'll hear from Wayne Spencer [ph]. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Last year, you guys reported on some movement with I think its national government services and some of the changes that they made in reimbursement. Can you update us on how that's going and any other additional movement within the private players or with the government payers?
Wayne, thank you for the question because this time, we really didn't focus on reimbursement at all in the movement we've been making, but it's a great point. We're getting paid or not we -- the hospitals and our clients are getting paid in lots of different states right now. Some are surprising the ones that we hadn't expected or are actually getting paid. Others, we still have to work the system.
NGS is the first set of breakthrough, but we're seeing that occur in other areas. I would expect to hear from at least two or three States on Medicaid, which usually lags Medicare, but we've made some presentations with our consultants and others that are helping on the Medicaid because diabetic foot ulcers tend to hit a certain part of the population a little more severely.
And therefore, they need help and where our product is priced from a standpoint, it can save a lot of money to the Medicaid systems at the state level. As an example, if we were to implement our, our product in our system in Georgia, it would save the state of Georgia close to $10 million a year in treating patients.
And so they're very interested, especially in times where budgets are tight and I can only imagine it's going to get tighter given the situation we're in. Unfortunately, I think what's going to happen is some of these are going to get delayed because everyone's focus is on COVID. And so, some of the decisions and the meetings we've had with different private payers and with the states are probably going to get pushed out from a decision standpoint.
It doesn't mean we're not getting the traction or not having good meetings. It's just a, I'm being realistic about how States operate, work and how some of these insurance carriers work. They're all true. Everyone's tried to navigate through this crisis and new things tend to get pushed off unless they directly impact COVID-19.
With that said, I still expect to see us get over 30 million covered lives later this year. We're not going to stop. And at some point, the pandemic will slow or flatten or get to a point where things do return to whatever normal is. And that's when we're going to see a little bit of a surge that, our clinical evidence is even stronger in the real world than it was in our studies.
So people are seeing it impact lives, they're seeing it firsthand. The word of mouth was fantastic. And we're working through issues on the claims and payments because quite frankly, a lot of its new and we've made some great inroads on that, so we're excited about it. Not to keep rambling on, but there's three things that are really important.
Can you make the patient better? Can the physician, you know, is it easy for him to use or are they going to make money? And then also importantly, is the payer going to save money? And those are the kind of three P of the successful when you have a medical device. And we luckily have a great product that, that really works. So, and it really compliant, it’s easy for the compliance with the patient. It isn't like they have to go without oxygen.
You know, a hyperbaric chamber or they have to go wear a boot or things like that. Ours was comes in, they sit there for six minutes and get treated. So patients like it and the results are good. The doctors like it because they're getting paid and they're making good money. And on a -- if you do kind of a gross income per hour adjustment, they make as much from our procedures. They do any of the other procedures in wound care, which is extremely important message to get across to the wound care clinics and centers and doctors.
And importantly, we've shown that we can save money and to the overall system, and some evidence of that is again in front of these Medicaid a provider, we've shown how, at our rate where they're going to save a tremendous amount of money. Again, the State of Georgia would stay to close to 10 million a year using our products. So, I feel very good about the reimbursement environment and I was hopeful to hear something by this call from some of the folks we have met with, but quite frankly, it doesn't surprise me given the pandemic.
[Operator instructions] Next, we'll hear a question from the line of Nate Hurst [ph].
Kevin, just a quick question on mentioned the devices for mobile use. Curious as what the margins of like are on that compared to a placement in a hospital or wound care center? And off of that after all this COVID-19 is done, will the mobile device market if you will be something you guys would still look into?
Good question. Thank you, Nate. So, first on the pricing, we're working through those with the different organizations. Now, we had a call even yesterday with one. Even they get paid sometimes differently where they're paid more on a capitated basis to for the care of that patient. So, the diagnosis goes out for that home patient and they kind of come up and they say, we're going to give you $4,500 this month to take care of that patient. We would have to be in that coating to get part of that 4,500.
And so, there are two different ways to approach it, and I would expect that within the next few weeks, we'll have the capability to do either way. One way is we just continue to get paid per treatment, and that would still be at the $211 every time they’re using. And remember, these home health agencies it’s kind of a route management business. The nurse is going from location to location whether it's a half hour an hour and each. Our set time takes about five minutes, procedure time six minutes. So, we don't really hurt them on their route capabilities. So, they can still continue to get a lot of flow.
But we may end up just placing the devices on a monthly charge and letting them manage the asset utilization on their own and incorporating it within their own payment structures. And so that would as an example, we might charge a certain amount per month for the device. And we'll see it depends on I think each for each, each one that we're talking to, and they're all different. Some are working with somebody in wound clinics that are existing clients that are working now with home health agencies to treat people at home.
Others are home health agencies themselves, and they have lonely talk to the other they have 8,000 patients over 252 with diabetic foot ulcers. So, that's a primary target for us where we may end up with, I guess, 5 to 10 placements with them to treat those 250 patients. Will we be in this market? I think you're seeing a paradigm shift in how wound care is being considered. You've seen a lot of the key opinion leaders, the Lee Rogers, the Tom Serene.
These are the some of the big name doctors out there, talking about how the wound care market needs to begin to triage these more and move more towards capitated model of how to close a wound. And I would argue its stuff that we've been positioned wonderfully for going forward. I mean, in fact, it's what we've talked about being in that position so that we can help with combination therapies and help with other even at home.
So, I would envision if there's money to be made there, using our device in the home, then we'll have it in home. That doesn't mean we won't have any of the wound clinics. We'll still have them at the wound clinics too. It's just I think you're going to see more people -- there's some great technology out there, digital imaging, where they can take pictures of your foot and the doctor can do telemedicine.
We were on the other day with the Dr. Sami and he was -- he or Dr. Willis, one of the two, they were talking about how they're doing a lot of their work right now. They're kind of looking at the foot over the computer saying, oh yes, here's what you need to do to take care of it and you need to come in or you don't need to come in. So, I think you're going to see a lot of, a lot of that occurring going forward.
And I think it's going to be a paradigm shift within the whole medical world. I mean, I'm talking medical, but all of us that have kids are at home right now and they're doing online education and that's a paradigm shift that's occurring in education. I think you're going to see a similar shift in wound care and home health right now. The pandemic is causing us to rethink how business and how treatment is handled.
Next, we'll hear a question from John Fox [ph].
Hi, Kevin and Lisa. Can you give us an update on how many employees full time that you have right now? There's a couple of points here I want to mention. How many you have? How many you have to lay off at this time? How many sales reps specifically you have and have you had to let go of any? And then lastly for Lisa mainly and you also, Kevin is the new federal government program relating to loans for small businesses. I've done some research on this and they're pretty aggressive, and I'm wondering if you or Lisa have looked into those loans at this point? Thank you.
So, I'll start and then I'll let Lisa finish, but with regard to the SBA loans and things like that, we have been exploring those, looking into those. And again, there are certain hurdles you have to meet, certain provisions you have to meet. And that's what I mentioned earlier, that we're going to explore each and every one of those to make sure that we're not going to get tripped up on something that could impact us later. But there are definitely many, many, many opportunities from getting funds from both federal state and local agencies. I think the bigger opportunity for us is again in some of the home health markets right now and driving revenue that way in the near-term.
As far as employee count goes, right now we have salespeople five, total salespeople and five clinical managers, we're repositioning one of them from one market to another market. So that's one of the areas that we're focused on. And then the overall head count -- when you include, we have some that are, what I call independent reps and but we trick them, they act in are treated as full time employees. I believe our numbers somewhere in the mid to high twenties right now, Lisa will correct me. Because for some reason I remember 31, but it might be 28. So Lisa?
I'm sorry, I was distracted by something. Was that the number of employees?
Yes, exactly.
Yes, we are at 23 full time employees on payroll and we have five independent contractors. So, we're about 28.
Our next question will come from the line of Michael Porter [ph]. Please go ahead, sir. Your line is open.
Good morning, Kevin. Can you give us some color on whether the hospitals are starting to more and more guide patients to you with all this going on and into the nursing homes and these kinds of facilities, Kevin?
Michael, you're hitting, it's a -- so the difficulty right now that all hospitals are at least the ones we've dealt with and are dealing with are focused on, how do they manage the ICUs? How do they manage the COVID influx that's occurring? And so if they're -- if you're deemed not essential, meaning if you just have a diabetic foot ulcer, they're trying to push you elsewhere to get treated or stay at home.
Now, that that can't last forever because if you don't treat a diabetic foot ulcer on a regular basis, what ends up happening is it gets infected. And we know that infected diabetic foot ulcers will lead to amputations. And so then you create a -- it's almost like a double whammy, right. So, you're treating a COVID patient, but then you have a patient with an infection that has to come into a hospital environment. That's not good either.
And so, that's what I mentioned the paradigms getting shifted. So, how do they treat them at home? How do they treat the patient in the nursing home instead of moving them to the wound clinic for treatment? And that's the dynamic we're facing right now. It's moving rapidly. I mean three weeks ago, this was not top of mind with a lot of people and now it's the number one thing, wound care centers are talking about. Home health agencies are all talking about it, it's a major demand driver for us.
And luckily, we have a device that can, again, easy to use, easy to set up, it can be moved into the home and treat patients. And so, we will be a beneficiary. And again, I hate using word beneficiary of a crisis, but that we can help we can help treatments because, as I mentioned in the overview, you can't move a hyperbaric chamber to someone's house, you can't do a skin graft surgery in someone's house. But you can do a dermaPACE treatment in someone's house, so you can treat them in that mobile function.
And that's really what our teams are out pushing right now is that hey, if you lose center need help with a mobile device, we're there for you. And they like it because again, we don't have a capital costs that we get paid on a per claim basis. And so, it's something that can get immediately brought into the field and it's exciting for us right now.
And our next question will come from the line of Gill Good [ph]. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Kevin, I was just wondering, if there's any standard number of treatments for a wound to heal or this is vary from patient-to-patient?
Yes, it still varies patient-to-patient, I would say that in our study, and I can only point to our study, we had very good results and we treated the patient. It was a total of eight times and that was over, we talked about trying to get to closure in 12-weeks and things like that. What we're seeing right now from the data and again we've done over 3000 treatments, and it varies across the board from wounds that are 2 centimeters squared, the wounds that are 6 centimeters squared, but really deep.
It depends on the BMI levels of the patient. Are they overweight? Are they underweight? Are they smoker? Are they not a smoker? The A1C levels are the sugars high or low? I mean these are all the different factors that go into it, but we're seeing a nice reduction on a week to week basis. We're seeing it happen immediately.
One of the studies we'll come out with, or not we, but one of the doctors, Dr. Windy Cole was going to present at the WUWHS Conference in Abu Dhabi, which was canceled, but her results were, were absolutely fantastic and she measured not just closure rates, which were in this case better than what we had in our study from a closure rate standpoint, but she also measured perfusion using a device called Kent imaging.
It’s the Kent Imaging device that measures oxygenation within wound. And without that, wound won’t close unless it has oxygenation. And so, we saw dramatic increases in the oxygenation levels of the wound over four week full treatment sets. So, every wound is a little different. And I think that's again plays really well to us because, our device and we have some patents around this is customizable based on those inputs.
So I mentioned BMI, I mentioned smoking, I mentioned A1C, I mentioned wound sizes. One of the things that we have the capability to do with our algorithms is customize our shock count to what's going to be best for a particular wound. And in today's environment that's really important. So in some would they may use a thousand shocks on a treatment, and another one they may use 2000 shocks. And they can also treat around the, what's called the periwound to drive vascularization to the wound bed itself.
So again, we're seeing on lots of differences and we're taking all this data, and data is the important part here. The more data we get from this, the better we can drive, the algorithms going forward. I mean I try to use like a fancy word like AI or something, but it's more just driving the algorithms the right way to treat the wound. That's part of the Polish study we did this year. The dosage study was really to figure out some of those algorithms, and we had really good results over there including some things the doctor did with other types of wounds that, I'm sure we will be talking about later this year because it's an exciting area of development that he pursued.
And ladies and gentlemen, we do thank you all for your questions today. Mr. Richardson, I'll turn it back to you for any additional or closing remarks.
Great. So just in closing, we are managing through this. We're trying our best to do what we can. We're going to take advantage of opportunities where we can help our patients, our customers, our clinicians. We're going to remain on track to get to our breakeven later this year. Again, one way or another, we're focused on expense management and we're going to come out of this stronger and part of the solution moving forward.
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Thank you very much. Have a great day.