Preserving Skin Integrity

Recorded On: 03/02/2022

For some patients, maintaining skin integrity is challenging. Many patients receiving infusion therapy have multiple comorbidities, including renal impairment, nutritional deficiencies, hematologic disorders, or cancer. These conditions can impair the skin surrounding the vascular access device (VAD) insertion site, which is vulnerable to being further injured or damaged during VAD insertion, care, and dressing changes. Skin injuries, such as medical adhesive-related skin injuries (MARSI), allergic and contact dermatitis and pressure injuries, often result. Each skin injury increases the risk for infection. In this session, attendees will learn how to identify VAD-associated skin injuries, their prevalence and risk factors, and strategies to ensure the prevention and treatment of these conditions, across dressing selection, application and much more.

Amanda Ullman, PhD, RN

Dr. Amanda Ullman is the inaugural professor and chair in pediatric nursing, conjoint between the University of Queensland and Children's Health Queensland, and a 2021-2022 Fulbright Future Scholar. She believes that children should be able to receive medical treatment in hospitals without harm, and her research focuses on improving the most common invasive procedure in pediatrics—the insertion of an intravenous (IV) catheter. This research has changed practice, reducing infection and pain and promoting efficient health care for children internationally, and has received considerable investments by the National Health and Medical Research Council as well as highly-competitive awards, more than 130 research articles, and two mHealth apps. In February 2022, according to ExpertScape, Dr. Ullman ranks as the top global expert in central venous catheters.

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