Bandages and Wound Healing Flashcards
What type of flap requires a bridging incision?
Axial transposition flap
A wound has been left open for 3 days to let granulation tissue form. This is an example of what type of healing?
Delayed primary healing
A HBC patient has an traumatic wound with debris. What type of bandage would be most appropriate?
Wet to Dry- functions as microdebridement
What could you put on a wound to stimulate growth of granulation tissue?
sugar honey Ca Alginate PSIS- porcine small intestine submucosa VAC- vacuum assisted closure
T/F: the blood supply for a thoracodorsal axial pattern flap is from the subdermal plexus.
False. a thoracodorsal axial pattern flap does not get blood from the subdermal plexus
For gentle debridement of a wound to reduce number of bacteria, you can use a _________ of saline to flush it out.
20 cc syringe 18 g needle
This procedure allows you to decrease dead space while advancing skin. Skin is stretched towards the center of the wound by placing rows of simple interrupted subdermal sutures beginning at depth of the wound.
Walking sutures!
Not indicted for distal limb bc technique is dependent on skin elasticity.
Can cause dimpling.
You are trying to speed up the wound closure of a debridement wound on a dog’s distal forelimb. What techniques could you use?
Skin stretching: presuturing, skin expanders
Multiple punctate relaxing incisions
adjustable horizontal mattress sutures
skin graft
What is the correct way to administer “prophylactic” antibiotics?
Administered just prior to start of surgery and continued until surgery is completed.
You just performed a gastrotomy to remove a foreign body. The patient had been properly prepared and no gastric contents were spilled. This procedure is classified as:
a. Clean
b. clean contaminated
c. contaminated
d. dirty
Clean contaminated
How long does chlorohexidin last?
8-12 hrs
Which graft requires a bed of granulation tissue before placement?
Punch Graft
