ABSTRACT
When assessing the friction ridge skin, if the skin is still partially attached to the underlying tissue, it may be possible to carefully pull the skin taut and use basic recovery techniques with extreme care. If the skin slippage is occurring in most areas, but there is adherence in a few areas, the skin can be carefully pinched in those areas and should easily come apart from the underlying tissue. If the skin is too fragile, or severe skin slippage is occurring, the friction ridge skin should be carefully removed from the underlying tissue as soon as possible. Before removing the skin, it is important to have paper towels or tech wipes set up and marked with each finger, as well as labeled containers for each portion of skin removed from respective fingers.
