Significance: Healthy skin provides a barrier to contaminants. Breaches in skin integrity are often encountered in the patient health care journey, owing to intrinsic health issues or to various procedures and medical devices used. The time has come to move clinical practice beyond mere awareness of medical adhesive-related skin injury and toward improved care and outcomes. Recent Advances: Methods developed in research settings allow quantitative assessments of skin damage based on the measurement of baseline skin properties. These properties become altered by stress and over time. Assessment methods typically used by the cosmetic industry to compare product performance could offer new possibilities to improve clinical practice by providing better information on the status of patient skin. This review summarizes available skin assessment methods as well as specific patient risks for skin damage. Critical Issues: Patients in health care settings may be at risk for skin damage owing to predisposing medical conditions, health status, medications taken, and procedures or devices used in their treatment. Skin injuries come as an additional burden to these medical circumstances and could be prevented. Technology should be leveraged to improve care, help maintain patient skin health, and better characterize functional wound closure. Future Directions: Skin testing methods developed to evaluate cosmetic products or assess damage caused by occupational exposure can provide detailed, quantitative information on the integrity of skin. Such methods have the potential to guide prevention and treatment efforts to improve the care of patients suffering from skin integrity issues while in the health care system.

Stéphanie F. Bernatchez

Jens Bichel

Advances in Wound Care

伤口护理的进展迅速分享了从工作台到床边的研究，包括烧伤、重大创伤、爆炸伤、手术和糖尿病溃疡的伤口护理应用。该杂志为组织损伤和修复领域提供了一个重要的、同行评议的论坛，重点是急性和慢性伤口。伤口护理的进展探索了新的研究方法和实践，以提供最新的科学发现和发展。伤口方面的进展护理范围包括：皮肤生物工程、皮肤和组织再生、急性、慢性和复杂伤口、敷料、抗疤痕策略、炎症、烧伤和愈合、生物膜、氧气和血管生成、严重肢体缺血、军事伤口护理、新设备和技术。

Advances in Wound Care is a journal dedicated to the field of wound care, rapidly sharing research findings from the laboratory to the bedside, including applications for burns, major trauma, blast injuries, surgical wounds, and diabetic ulcers. This journal provides an important peer-reviewed forum for the field of tissue injury and repair, focusing on both acute and chronic wounds. It explores new research methodologies and practices to present the latest scientific discoveries and advancements. The scope of research in wound care includes skin bioengineering, skin and tissue regeneration, acute, chronic, and complex wounds, dressings, anti-scarring strategies, inflammation, burns and healing, biofilms, oxygen and angiogenesis, severe limb ischemia, military wound care, and new devices and technologies.

《Advances in Wound Care》是一本专注于伤口护理领域的期刊，迅速分享从实验室到临床的研究成果，涵盖烧伤、重大创伤、爆炸伤、手术和糖尿病溃疡等伤口护理应用。该杂志为组织损伤和修复领域提供了一个重要的同行评议论坛，重点关注急性和慢性伤口的研究。期刊探索新的研究方法和实践，以提供最新的科学发现和发展。伤口护理的研究范围包括皮肤生物工程、皮肤和组织再生、急性、慢性和复杂伤口、敷料、抗疤痕策略、炎症、烧伤和愈合、生物膜、氧气和血管生成、严重肢体缺血、军事伤口护理以及新设备和技术。

The Science of Skin: Measuring Damage and Assessing Risk

This review summarizes available skin assessment methods as well as specific patient risks for skin damage, which have the potential to guide prevention and treatment efforts to improve the care of patients suffering from skin integrity issues while in the health care system.

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The Science of Skin: Measuring Damage and Assessing Risk

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