Needle Type
You are completing a kidney or liver procedure. What type of needle would you be expected to pick for the case?
What is a blunt-tip needle
This type of suture is used on the sternum and has indefinite tensile strength
What is stainless steel?
The ideal conditions for wound healing, heal side to side, and dead space had been eliminated
What is first intentions (primary Union)
these have jaws that can be curved or straight.
These are the three main types of wounds
What are intentional, unintentional, and chronic wounds?
Tissue trauma is minimized by what type of needle eye?
What are eyeless needles?
Another name polyglactin 910 goes by?
What is vicryl?
the three stages of healing in the first intention
What is Lag phase, proliferation phase, and maturation phase?
This hemostatic item can be called a tie, a stick tie if a needle is attached.
What is ligature
These wounds are made under ideal circumstances. Such as a surgical incision
What is an intentional wound?
This type of needle is used on the tendons, skin, and sclera of the eye.
What is the cutting needle
this suture has good knot security, used in robotic surgery's and goes by polytetrafluoethylene?
What is Gore-tex
Patient age, allergic response, nutritional status, obesity, disease, smoking and immunocompromised are all of what?
What is the patients' physical condition that influences healing?
These are used in a lot of cases, counted items, and used to absorb fluids. Give examples
What are sponges? (Laps, raytecs, peanuts, kitners, cottonoids)
this wound is made under traumatic injuries, complicated wounds, and can be classified by the type of injury
What are unintentional wounds?
This needle eye looks like the typical sewing needle that you would find in a sewing kit in an everyday household
What is a closed-eye needle?
This suture is natural and fastest absorbing suture
What is plain gut?
the point where a wound fails to heal at the primary union
What is the second intention (granulation)
Type of hemostasis that uses heat
What is thermal hemostasis?
These wounds are long-lasting, which comes from an underlying condition
What is a chronic wound?
These are the characteristics a needle can have
What are eye, point, and body types?
Enzymatic digestion breaks down what type of suture material?
What is natural absorbable suture?
this is a dirty wound that is left open, usually caused by a traumatic wound.
What is the third intention?
These are pharmacological agents to in hemostasis
What is chemical hemostasis?
Pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function are the processes of what?
What is the inflammatory process.