Chapter 4: Wound Care Flashcards
Wounds that break the skin are referred as?
Open wounds.
Treating of open wounds involve?
Cleaning the area, numbing the area with anesthetic, closing the wound using adhesive strips (sterile-strips), skin glue, sutures or staples.
Does the patient may also receive a tetanus booster shot?
Yes.
Sutures and staples are used to bring together or approximate?
The edges of a wound.
Sutures and staples are used to bring together or approximate the edges of a wound causes?
Hastens healing ans lessness scarring.
New topical glues are used for superficial wounds that may not require sutures or staples but?
Wound edges must be approximated for healing.
All three forms of wound closure can be reinforced with?
Adhesive skin strips to help keep wound edges together.
Depth of injury, injury location and allergies to materials are all factors in?
Determining which closure material to use.
Sutures can be?
Interrupted or running (continuous).
With interrupted sutures each suture is?
A separate entity and is individually positioned and knotted.
What does Running sutures speed up?
Lengthy wound closures and involve only two knots; at the beginning and end.
The type of suturing depends on?
How much tension is required to close the wound.
Are Interrupted sutures stronger?
Yes.
How do most sutures used in the ambulatory setting come already?
Swaged.
Where the needle driver grabs the needle?
At a flattened position in the middle.
