Development and validation of medical adhesive‐related skin injury risk assessment scale at peripherally inserted central catheter insertion site in oncology patients

Abstract

Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are widely used in chemotherapy for oncology patients (Liao et al., 2019;Santos et al., 2020).However, given that insertion sites need to be maintained using disinfectants and medical adhesives weekly (Ullman et al., 2019), the skin under a dressing becomes sensitive (Zhao, He, Huang, et al., 2018), and is prone to medical adhesive-related skin injury (MARSI), which is any skin damage associated with the use of medical adhesive products, including film dressings (Fumarola et al., 2020).Studies have shown that the incidence of MARSI at the PICC insertion sites of oncology patients is 19.70% to 31.50% (Wang