This type of dressing is most commonly used in skin grafts.
What is a pressure dressing?
100
This needles primary use is for suturing soft tissue, such as muscle, sub-q, dura, peritoneum, and gi, biliary and vascular.
What is a tapered needle?
100
A tissue graft derived by human tissue?
What is allograft?
100
This begins as soon as the tissue is injured. Phagocytes migrate to the wound site and digest excess fibrin, bacteria, and cell fragments.
What is the inflammatory phase?
200
This re-absorbable implant is used in maxilofacial and orthopedic surgery
What are polymer implants that are composed of PLA?
200
This type of dressing is used to prevent or limit movement of the surgical wound during healing.
What is a support dressing?
200
This suture is used in most deep tissues, especially in vascular, intestinal, opthalmic, and neurosurgical procedures.
What are silk sutures?
200
Tissue obtained from the patients body and implanted in another site is known as this.
What is an autologous autograft?
200
A surgical wound that is sutured together heals by this.
What is primary intention?
300
This porous implant is often used in facial reconstructive surgery.
What is polyethylene?
300
This is an example of a passive drain.
What is a penrose drain?
300
This sutures smooth surface makes it popular for plastic, opthalmic, and vascular surgery. It also possesses high tensile strength it can be used for retention sutures, and when infection is present.
What are polypropylene sutures?
300
Tissue ised to cover large defects in the skin, usually a result of burns, trauma, or infection.
What is wound cover?
300
This is a process in which an infected or contaminated wound is treated and the wound space is packed to prevent serum accumulation.
What is third intention?
400
Dacron, PTEE, and polyester are typically used for this.
What are vascular grafts?
400
This drain is used for wounds or hollow structures that produce significant amounts of fluid but do not need suction.
Examples of this are T tube, Pezzer, Malecot, and Foley catheters.
What are gravity drains?
400
This suture technique has a very strong finished suture line, but is detailed and time consuming.
And this suture technique is used to provide additional support to wound edges in abdominal surgery.
What are interrupted sutures.
What are retention sutures?
400
A graft taken from a different species than that of the donor
What is a xenograft?
400
This classification of wound heals from the base.
What is secondary intention?
500
This polymer reinforces the implant and prevents leakage and wear.
What is PEEK?
500
This type of drain pulls serum and blood away from the wound negative air pressure. Examples of this are Hemovac and Jackson-Pratt.
What is a suction drain?
500
This type of suture is used for circular tissue, such as opthalmic surgery or hollow structures.
What is a double armed suture?
500
Any type of tissue replacement or device placed in the body.
What is an implant?
500
This stage of healing begins after 3 weeks and lasts 22 days to 1 year.