The aim of this document is to provide clinicians with guidance for best practice in these areas of MASD, thereby contributing to improving patient outcomes and reducing the incidence of these and related skin conditions, through skin-focused prevention and management plans.
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Launched 29 October 2020 from ISTAP (www.skintears.org).
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The International Skin Tear Advisory Panel (ISTAP) published the latest Best Practice Recommendation related to skin integrity.
28 May 2020 - Professor Dimitri Beeckman appointed as the new ISTAP president
The summary results were released on 27 May 2020 about “The use of a silicone adhesive multilayer foam dressing as an adjuvant prophylactic therapy to prevent hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: a multicentre randomised open label parallel group medical device trial”