A series of images and text to help you to identify and grade the cause of tissue damage.
Key Principles of Assessing Skin Excoriation
- You should be able to recognise different types of tissue and be able to differentiate between healthy tissue and damaged tissue.
- Identify if the lesion over a bony prominence
- The most common way to decide whether a lesion is due to excoriation is to first of all make a visual assessment of the lesion.
- This assessment can be supplemented by using the skin excoriation tool contained in this toolkit, and through discussions with colleagues.