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Pressure Injury Stages
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NPIAP Pressure Injury Stages

The National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel redefined the definition of a pressure injuries in 2016.

Click here to view definitions.

Additional resources

Pressure Injury Illustrations

NPIAP offers free downloadable pressure injury illustrations for educational purposes. 

Click here to view or download all 19 staging images.

Click here to view or download a staging poster with definitions, illustrations, and photos for each stage. 

Click any of the images below to view or download the individual illustration: 

   Health Skin -Darkly Pigmented             

Stage 1 -Darkly Pigmented

Stage 1 Edema

                                            Stage 2 - Darkly Pigmented
       
      Stage 3 - Darkly Pigmented     

 

     Stage 4 - Darkly Pigmented                Deep Tissue PI -Darkly Pigmented           Unstageable-Darkly Pigmented               
    Unstageable PI slough and escar                  Unstageable PI dark eschar                 

 

Click here to view our 2017 Position Statement on staging
Journal citation; article explains development of the 2016 staging system:

Edsberg, L. E., Black, J. M., Goldberg, M., McNichol, L., Moore, L., & Sieggreen, M. (2016). Revised National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Pressure Injury Staging System: Revised Pressure Injury Staging System. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs, 43(6), 585-597. doi:10.1097/won.0000000000000281