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This type of wound is caused by unrelieved pressure on the skin, primarily affecting patients who are bedridden or immobile.
What is Pressure Ulcer?
A means for fluid or blood that accumulates within a wound bed to drain out of the body.
What is drain?
When microorganisms invade the wound tissues and the major goal of wound management
What is Infection?
Contains six subscales: sensory, perception, moisture, activity, mobility, nutrition, and friction/shear.
What is Braden Scale?
Common method of delivering a wound-cleansing solution to the wound. Wound irrigation cleans and debrides necrotic tissue with pressure
What is wound irrigation?
Intact skin with a localized area of nonblanchable erythema, which may appear differently in darkly pigmented skin
What is Stage 1?
This moist wound care model uses saline-soaked dressings covered with a waterproof layer.
What is hydrocolloid dressing?
localized collection of blood underneath the tissues
What is Hematoma?
Type of Wound Drainage: Bright red; indicates active bleeding
What is Sanguineous?
a device that helps in wound closure by applying localized negative pressure to draw the edges of a wound together
What is wound vac?
Obscured tissue loss. If slough or eschar is removed, a Stage 3 or Stage 4 pressure injury will be revealed.
What is Unstageable Pressure Injury?
Gauze or sheet dressing impregnated with water or glycerin-based amorphous gel; can be very useful in painful wounds because it is soothing and does not adhere to the wound bed and thus causes little pain during removal.
What is hydrogel dressing?
skin edges are approximated, or closed, risk of infection is low. Healing occurs quickly with minimal scar formation.
What is Primary Intention?
The drainage is thick, yellow, green, tan, or brown.
What is purulent?
Name the process by which dead, damaged, or infected tissue is removed from a wound to promote healing.
What is debridement?
No additional reimbursement for care related to stage III and stage IV pressure ulcers that occur during hospitalization
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
How much protein can a patient lose for day from an open, weeping pressure ulcer?
What is 50grams?
What is osteomyelitis?
Black, brown, tan, or necrotic tissue
What is Eschar?
Three different types of wound debridement.
What are autolytic, chemical and surgical?
Special bed that minimizes interface pressure, while maximizing the surface’s immersion and envelopment properties to support healing.
What is Clinitron bed?
Debridement makes eschar worse, this liquid makes it better.
What is Iodine?
Wound that fails to proceed through an orderly and timely process to produce anatomical and functional integrity
What is Chronic Wound?
Braden Scale less than 9
What is severe risk?
We never put this to a wound with tunnel
What is black foam?