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Hi to everyone in the nursing homes providing wound care, treatment nurses and directors
of nursing! I have been getting asked a lot about Deep Tissue Injury vs UTD vs Unstageable
wounds from a lot of wound care nurses out there. Real quick, UTD is not a stage, it
is a measurement for depth. When you can't measure how deep a wound is use UTD. Suspected
Deep Tissue Injury or also known as DTI, should be used for wounds that have bruising discoloration
usually purple in color usually the skin is intact or you could also use this classification
for a blood filled blister. DTIs can then become any stage wound. Unstageable is usually
a wound that you cannot tell how deep it is, it can be down to fat, muscle, tendon, or
bone. And this is because there is either slough, necrosis, eschar, or other tissue
breakdown that obscures the depth of the wound. Now if the slough, necrosis or eschar is removed
and you can partially see that the wound is down to muscle or bone, you can re stage the
wound to a Stage 4 pressure ulcer. And that covers this wound care segment. Please click
this link below, to get more education, and to partner with us for your nursing home patients.