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Sep 1, 2026
Never “Just a Skin Tear”: Rethinking Prevention, Management and Patient Safety with Samantha Holloway
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10:07Samantha HollowayGUEST
Previous to that in 2018, the definition varied a little bit.
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10:12Samantha HollowayGUEST
But working with the WOCN in North America and also the nurses specialized in Wounds, Ostomy, Continence Canada, we came up with this revised definition that put patient handling in there because what we've learned since the original ISTAP definition is often skin tears are caused through that sort of daily, often unintentional, but handling patients, helping them move, helping them dress and wash and bathe.
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10:39Samantha HollowayGUEST
So, patient handling came into that definition as of last year.
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10:45Hayley RyanHOST
So you kind of explained how these skin tears can occur and how to categorize them.