KEY WORDS Adhesive remover Fragile skin Lifteez MARSI Pain Skin stripping
Authors:
LOUISE JONES, DONNA BELL, CHRISTINE HODGSON (COMMUNITY RESEARCH TEAM) Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
LUXMI MOHAMUD (LM) Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
JACKIE STEPHEN-HAYNES (JSH) Professor in Wound Healing, Birmingham City University
ROSIE CALLAGHAN (RC) Tissue Viability Nurse, Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust
MONIQUE MARIES (MM) Tissue Viability Nurse, Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust
Published in The Diabetic Foot Journal Vol 25 No 3 2022, this article covers periwound maceration skin management strategies using a skin barrier film on diabetic foot ulcers.
Author: Alexandra Freitas, Clinical Nurse Advisor, Medicareplus International
The 2nd of October is World Ostomy Day, a celebration that has been held on the first Saturday in October since 2010. Word Ostomy Day is a chance to raise awareness of what it means to live with a stoma.
If you are a healthcare practitioner, then you know that one of the most important things you can do for your patients is to keep their skin healthy. This means preventing and treating wounds, as well managing the periwound area
The module covers the prevalence of urinary and faecal incontinence, the impact it can have on the quality of life, types and causes of urinary and faecal incontinence, an overview of conservative and surgical treatment and how to prevent skin damage.
On completion of this module, you will understand: What a stoma is, The importance of skin and how moisture can damage skin, What peristomal skin is, How to prevent and manage peristomal skin complications. At the end of the module, you can take a short assessment to check your understanding of the module’s contents.
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