Transforming Perspectives: An exploration into the Evidence and Perspectives of Skin Failure and its Distinction from Pressure Injuries

Skin failure and pressure injury are often difficult to distinguish in critically ill and end-of-life patients, creating significant challenges for clinical management, quality reporting, reimbursement, and medicolegal risk. This multidisciplinary session brings together the perspectives of a physician, nurse, and researcher to review the evolving evidence on skin failure, discuss key clinical and diagnostic differences from pressure injury, and examine practical approaches to assessment, prevention, documentation, and interdisciplinary decision-making. Through evidence-based discussion and real-world cases, attendees will gain practical strategies to improve diagnostic accuracy, enhance patient-centered care, and confidently navigate this complex and often controversial aspect of wound care.