Impaired Skin Integrity

State in which the skin of an individual is altered unfavorably.

 Related factors:

Hyperthermia and hypothermia.

– Chemicals.

– Shearing forces, pressure continues clamping radiation.

– Physical immobility.

– State of nutrition.

– Circulation altered.

– Impaired sensation.

– Psychogenic.

– Edema.

 Features:

– Interrupt the continuity of the skin.

– Destruction of the skin layers.

– Invasion of body structures.

 

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