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Question 1

Abnormal firmness of the tissues with palpable margins

Answer 1

Induration

Question 2

Woody fibrosis of the skin

Answer 2

Lipodermatosclerosis

Question 3

Red moist tissue raised above the level of the skin

Answer 3

Hypergranulation

Question 4

Abnormal thickening of the epidermis

Answer 4

Hyperkeratosis (callous)

Question 5

When would a pressure wound be considered unstageable?

Answer 5

Covered with Eschar or slough (cannot see the wound)

Question 6

What are the components required to describe a wound?

Answer 6

Wound location

Wound size

Tissue present

Wound edge

Periwound

Odor or exudate

Question 7

Serous exudate

Answer 7

Thin, watery, clear

Question 8

Sanguineous exudate

Answer 8

Thin, bright red, fresh bleeding

Question 9

Serosanguinous exudate

Answer 9

Thin, watery, pale red to pink

Question 10

Perulent exudate

Answer 10

Thick or thin, yellow

Question 11

Foul purulent exudate

Answer 11

Yellow to green with bad odor

Question 12

What does scant mean in wound drainage?

Answer 12

Wound tissue moist (no measurable drainage)

Question 13

What does minimal mean in wound drainage?

Answer 13

Wound tissue very moist (<25% of dressing saturated with drainage)

Question 14

What does moderate mean in wound drainage?

Answer 14

Wound tissue is wet (25-75% dressing saturated with drainage)

Question 15

What does large mean in wound drainage?

Answer 15

Wound tissue is filled with fluid (>75% dressing saturated with drainage)

Question 16

When would you consider debridement?

Answer 16

On black or yellow tissue (not red)

Question 17

What is red tissue?

Answer 17

Granulation (firm, red, moist)

Question 18

What are the different ways red tissue may present?

Answer 18

Paly dusky or beefy red

Question 19

What is yellow tissue?

Answer 19

Slough

Question 20

What are ways to describe yellow tissue?

Answer 20

Dry and adhered or stringy and wet

Question 21

What is black tissue?

Answer 21

Eschar

Question 22

What are ways to describe black tissue?

Answer 22

Firm or loosely attached

Wet or dry

Question 23

What is epithelialization?

Answer 23

New, pink to white, shiny migrating healthy epithelium

Question 24

What categories are chronic wounds classified into?

Answer 24

Pressure, diabetic/neuropathic, arterial, and venous

Question 25

What test would you use for pressure ulcers?

Answer 25

National pressure injury advisory panel staging system Braden or Norton scale

Question 26

What tests would you use for arterial ulcers?

Answer 26

Rutherford grade and category 0-6 Fontaine classification Foot

Question 27

What test would you use for venous ulcers?

Answer 27

CEAP classification

Question 28

What test would you use for diabetic ulcers?

Answer 28

Diabetic Wagner scale 0-5

Question 29

What test would you use for burns?

Answer 29

Depth (thickness) Superficial, superficial partial, deep partial, full thickness

Question 30

What may the ridge indicate on a surgical wound?

Answer 30

Normal healing

Question 31

What is a type of mechanical debridement?

Answer 31

Pulsed lavage

Question 32

What is the best type of debridement for an infected large sacral pressure injury covered in necrotic tissue?

Answer 32

Surgical

Question 33

What is one reason you would never use autolytic debridement?

Answer 33

Infection

Question 34

What dressings would you use with low exudate?

Answer 34

Hydrogel, transparent film, or hydrocolloid

Question 35

What dressings would you use with high exudate?

Answer 35

Alginate, foam, or super absorbent

Question 36

What does erythema mean?

Answer 36

Redness

Question 37

What does ecchymosis mean?

Answer 37

Bruising

Question 38

What does hemosiderin mean?

Answer 38

Darkened staining color

Question 39

What is the main mechanism by which chronic wounds fail to heal?

Answer 39

Prolonged inflammatory process

Question 40

Why would you do cross hatching or scoring on a wound?

Answer 40

To allow for enzymatic debridement to under the top

Question 41

What are the best debridement methods for Eschar?

Answer 41

Sharp or enzymatic (do not debride if there is inadequate blood supply)

Question 42

What is the fastest way to reduce slough?

Answer 42

Sharp debridement

Question 43

What is debridement?

Answer 43

Removal of necrotic tissue from a wound to improve the healing process

Question 44

What are the types of debridement?

Answer 44

Mechanical Autolytic Enzymatic Surgical/sharp Biologic

Question 45

What does negative pressure wound therapy do?

Answer 45

Promotes wound contraction pulling granulation tissue to fill dead spaces

Question 46

What does negative pressure wound therapy create?

Answer 46

Moist environment (fluid removal and edema reduction)