Injuries & Types
This type of pressure injury is associated with medical device use at the site of injury.
What is a mucosal membrane pressure injury?
These age groups are at increased risk of developing pressure injuries.
What are neonates, children, and older adults?
This topical antimicrobial agent should be avoided in patients with kidney and thyroid dysfunction.
What is iodine?
Management of pressure injuries involves pressure off-loading, wound site management, and optimization of this.
What is nutrition?
The depth of injury varies by anatomical location in these two types of pressure injuries.
What are stage 3 and 4 injuries?
Increased moisture from urine, stool, and sweat can cause this to the skin, which escalates the risk of pressure injuries.
What is maceration?
These are the preferred dressings for dry wound beds that would benefit from autolytic debridement.
What are hydrogels?
Colonization or infection is often polymicrobial, but some data shows that this organism is most prevalent in hospital-based infections.
What is Staph. aureus?
This type of pressure injury results from intense and/or prolonged pressure and shear forces at the bone-muscle interface.
What is a deep tissue injury?
A comprehensive skin assessment should be completed immediately at this point during a patient’s hospitalization.
What is upon inpatient admission?
This dressing removes moisture and prevents and destroys biofilm when in gel form.
What is calcium alginate?
These types of surfaces may increase the incidence of pressure injuries as compared with alternating pressure or reactive air surfaces.
What are foam mattresses?
The wound bed in a stage 2 pressure injuries is viable, pink or red, moist, and may also present as this.
What is an intact or ruptured serum-filled blister?
Patients with these medical comorbidities are at increased risk of developing pressure injuries.
What are CHF, dementia, DM, and PAD?
This type of dressing must be removed carefully from fragile skin because removal can cause trauma.
What is a hydrocolloid dressing?
This therapy can be used adjunctively for early stage 3 and 4 injuries, particularly in patients with spinal cord injuries.
What is negative pressure wound therapy using vacuum-assisted closure?
A stable eschar (i.e., dry, adherent, intact without erythema or fluctuance), common in unstageable pressure injuries, should not be softened or removed from injuries found in one of these two locations.
What is an ischemic limb or the heel(s)?
Although their sensitivity and specificity for identifying patients at risk of pressure injuries are low, these two risk assessment tools are often used.
What are the Braden and Norton scales?
Honey made from this species is most effective in preventing microbial growth and extension of microbial colonization.
What is Leptospermum?
(New Zealand’s Leptospermum scoparium (Manuka honey derived from this). Common name is “tea tree”, because early settlers used leaves to make an herbal tea.)
The various society guidelines recommend implementing a skin care regimen to keep the skin hydrated and clean using a balanced cleanser with this pH.
What is a pH of 5.5?