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various internal and external factors influence the risk of skin injuries for
example age-related factors play a major impact on a patient's susceptibility to
medical adhesive related skin injuries. Compared to most adults skin
newborn's skin is about 40 to 60 percent thinner largely due to the presence of
fewer skin cell layers. Furthermore MARSI can be a problem across specialty
care areas including critical care, long-term care, oncology, geriatrics
pediatrics, perioperative and wound care. Other conditions contribute as well including
underlying medical conditions
certain medications, previous use of adhesives products and more
various factors impact the risk of skin injury for example if the patient is
taking a steroid they can be more susceptible to skin injury. Because of these
factors there is no one size fits all approach when it comes to reducing the
risk of MARSI