Open AccessNeonatal Skin Structure: Pressure Injury Staging Challenges
Author(s) -
Ann Marie Nie,
Deanna E Johnson,
Robyn C. Reed
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
advances in skin and wound care
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-8654
pISSN - 1527-7941
DOI - 10.1097/01.asw.0000818580.47852.68
Subject(s) - medicine , pressure injury , population , intensive care medicine , environmental health
To review neonatal pressure injuries (PIs), including clinical features and challenges in evaluation and staging related to the unique anatomic features of preterm neonatal skin as well as the common sites and mechanisms of injury.