What ’s in a name ?

The recent NPUAP consensus meeting in Chicago has provided the community with an array of changes to specific terms related to the clinical conditions that forms the focus of many papers in the Journal of Tissue Viability. In particular, they will adopt the term “pressure injury” to replace “pressure ulcer” in the NPUAP Pressure Injury Staging System. Their justification for this change in terminology is that it more accurately describes damage to both intact and ulcerated skin. In the previous staging system Stage 1 and Deep Tissue Injury (DTI) des cribed injured intact skin, while the other stages described open ulcers.

Source: Journal of Tissue Viability - September 27, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dan Bader, Lisette Schoonhoven Source Type: research