Incidence rates of Moisture Associated Skin Damage (MASD) can be as high as 29%, particularly among longer stay patients (48 hours+) in critical care1.

Tell us about your experience in preventing, managing and recording incidence of MASD amongst your patients.
Tell us about MASD in your organisation

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1. What is your role? – please select from the drop down list (Required.)

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2. How has your incidence rate of MASD changed over the last 12 months – please select (Required.)

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3. Do you record all incidents of MASD eg datix? (Required.)

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4. Do you have a skin care pathway / protocol in place? Please select. (Required.)

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5. On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with your current skin care pathway?

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Training on MASD in your organisation

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6. How important is training on MASD for you? (Required.)

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7. What training and support on MASD do you currently see in your organisation? (Required.)

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8. What additional training and support on MASD would you like to see? Eg posters, information leaflets, online training
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MASD Awareness Day

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9. We are looking to develop a MASD awareness day – is this something you would be keen to participate in? (Required.)

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10. Would you like to participate in the development of the MINIMISE Moisture™ toolkit for MASD awareness and prevention? (Required.)

Additional info box – MASD definition

Moisture Associated Skin Damage (MASD) or ‘moisture damage’ is an umbrella term which includes a range of types of skin damage which can be caused by moisture. It develops where urine, faeces, or perspiration (sweat) stays in with the skin. This can happen in lots of places – in-between any skin folds, between buttocks, groins, under breasts, underarms, around a stoma site or around a wet wound.

Additional info box – MINIMISE Moisture

MINIMISE Moisture™ quality improvement was launched in 2019 by Julie Tyrer, TVN Consultant at Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS FT.  The initiative is focused on raising awareness of MASD and actions to reduce incidence rate, including a protocol to guide staff on what products to use and the introduction of new wicking technology to lock moisture away from patients’ skin.


References

1  Valls-Matarín, et al. (2017). Incidence of moisture-associated skin damage in an intensive care unit, 28(1), 13–20

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