Wound Care

Question 0

Mechanical wounds

Answer 0

Describe the kind of trauma that caused the injury. Often open and closed wounds.

Question 1

Wounds r classified by

Answer 1

How the wound was made, size of the wound , depth, cleanliness

Question 2

Open wound

Answer 2

Surgical incision, injection, or placement of IV catheter.

Question 3

Closed wound

Answer 3

Tissue is damaged but no break in the skin.

Question 4

Abrasions

Answer 4

Loss of superficial cells; result of friction or crushing.

Question 5

Contusions

Answer 5

Blood vessel trauma; result of blunt force. Disruption of of small vessels of the skin.color determines the age of the contusion.

Question 6

Lacerations

Answer 6

Tearing of tissue; result of excessive stretching sufficient enough to interrupt the continuity of the skin. This type of wound usually has ragged edges.

Question 7

Incisions

Answer 7

Cut in tissue; produced by sharp instruments, such as scalpel. Sight has clean edge and will heal with less scaring then laceration.

Question 8

Avulsions

Answer 8

Tearing away of body parts or structure.

Question 9

Puncture wounds

Answer 9

Deep piercing or penetration of several layers of tissue result of sharp object or instrument or bullet.

Question 10

Burn

Answer 10

Tissue injury resulting from excessive exposure to thermal chemical, electrical, or radio active agents that can vary in severity.

Question 11

Thermal wound

Answer 11

Burn resulting from contact with fire, hot objects or fluids. Cause the protein in cells to coagulate.

Question 12

Ulcers

Answer 12

Wounds occurring when there is inadequate blood flow to tissue causing the skin to break down or to slough. For example decubitus or pressure ulcers. All are a result of insufficient blood flow to the tissue.

Question 13

Clean wound

Answer 13

usually made intentionally using sterile technique, manually closed and are well- approximated.

Question 14

Contaminated wound

Answer 14

Usually caused by unintentional break in the skin. Non sterile object, introducing pathogens into the skin. A wound is considered dirty was it is contaminated.wounds that r open and unprotected can be contaminated.

Question 15

Bandage

Answer 15

A strip or roll of cloth or other material that can be wound around a part of the body in a variety of ways for multiple purposes.

Question 16

Binder

Answer 16

A bandage that is made of large pieces of material to fit a specific body part; for example a abdominal binder or breast binder.

Question 17

Dehiscence

Answer 17

Separation of surgical incision or rupture of wound closure typically an abdomen incision .

Question 18

Drainage

Answer 18

The removal of fluids from a body cavity, wound, or other source of discharge by one or more methods.

Question 19

Eviseration

Answer 19

Protrusion of an internal organ through a wound or surgical incision especially in the abdominal wall.

Question 20

Exudate

Answer 20

Fluid cells or other substances that have been slowly exuded or discharged from cells or blood through small pores or breaks in cell membranes

Question 21

Granulation

Answer 21

Soft pink fleshy projections consisting of capillaries surrounded by fibrous collagen.

Question 22

Incision

Answer 22

A cut produced surgically by a shape instrument creating an opening into an organ or space in the body

Question 23

Infectious process

Answer 23

Condition caused by the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

Question 24

Inflammatory response

Answer 24

A tissue reaction to injury

Question 25

Irrigation

Answer 25

Gentle washing of an area with a stream of solution delivered through an irrigating syringe.

Question 26

Primary intention

Answer 26

Minimal scarring results, healing begins during inflammatory phase of healing in surgery this is usually during closure of the wound.

Question 27

Puncture

Answer 27

Stab wound for a drainage system

Question 28

Purulent

Answer 28

Producing or containing pus; thick, yellow, green, tan or brown

Question 29

Sanguineous

Answer 29

Composed of or pertaining to blood; bright red, indicates active bleeding

Question 30

Secondary intentions

Answer 30

A wound must granulate during healing, occurs when skin edges are not close together(approximated) or when pus has formed.

Question 31

Serosanguineous

Answer 31

Then and red composed of serum and blood. Pail red watery; mixture of serous and sanguineous

Question 32

Serous

Answer 32

then and watery, composed of the serum portion of blood.clear watery plasma

Question 33

t-tube

Answer 33

A drainage tube into the duct to maintain a free flow of bile until Edema subsides. The tube drains by gravity into a closed drainage tube.

Question 34

Tertiary intention

Answer 34

Healing by delayed primary intention leaves a contaminated wound open and closes later after infection is controlled.

Question 35

Vacuum assisted closure

Answer 35

Wound vac is a device that assists in wound closure by applying localized negative pressure to draw the edges of a wound together.

Question 36

Wound

Answer 36

Any injury to the bodies tissues involving a break in the skin.