It is noted by the staff in A&E that Mrs McGinty has developed a partial-thickness skin break on her sacrum. Her daughter provides some further background information explaining that she had found her Mum this morning on the floor having last seen her on Friday evening. She doesn’t know how long she had been lying there but judging by her position and general state she thinks it may have been for some time. She also reports that her Mum had been incontinent and it looked like she had tried to drag herself around the room to get help.
On admission to the stroke unit the nurses further assess and consider how best to manage her sacral partial-thickness skin break.
Page last reviewed: 20 Apr 2021
