Wounds
Signs and Symptoms
Treatment
100

Trauma that happens to the skin is visually exposed

What is Skin Wounds?

100
Occurs in abrasion, skin may change color and start to change form.

What is swelling?

100

Commonly used by medical and nursing staff to arrest bleeding in a trauma or first aid situation. Their use on surgical wounds may reduce blood loss, wound ooze and infection risk.

What are compressive dressings?

200

Injuries that involve a break in the skin and leave the internal tissue exposed

What are open wounds?

200
This type of cloudy fluid may be a sign of a wound.

What is pus?

200

What does RICE stand for?

What is Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevate?

300

Occur without any exposure to the underlying damaged tissue and organs and are generally caused through blunt trauma.

What are closed wounds?

300

This is the result of the presence of the infection which causes the wound to remain in the inflammatory phase of wound healing

What is drainage?

300

A person who is trained and licensed to practice medicine. They help prevent, diagnose, treat, and manage injuries, diseases, and other conditions.

What is a physician?

400

Skin scraped against a rough surface

What is abrasion?

400

Redness/red streaks appear beyond edges in what type of wound

What is abrasion?

400

These are used to absorb blood and other fluids, protect the wound from infection, and provide a barrier between the wound and the outside world.

What is a gauze?

500

Layers of skin torn off completely or only flap of skin remains

What is avulsion?

500

The affected area is tender to touch and sensitive.

What are closed wounds?

500

These ointments can be used directly on the skin and help prevent and treat minor skin infections of small cuts, abrasions, scrapes, first-degree burns and stitched surgical wounds. NEOSPORIN®, POLYSPORIN®, and Bacitracin are examples.

What are anti-bacterial ointments?