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Risks/Prevention
Treatment
Diagnosis and Staging
Aging Skin
Assessment
100
Nursing home residents with this type of impairment may not recognize pain, remember to change positions, or be able to verbalize needs
What is cognitive impairment?
100
This is what should be used to rinse open ulcers.
What is Saline Solution
100
This type ulcer extends beneath the skin without exposing connective tissues
What is a stage III ulcer?
100
As we age these two types of glands become less active, leading to dryer, itchier skin.
What are sebaceous and sweat glands?
100
This scale is used when assessing the color of a pressure ulcer.
What is Red-Yellow-Black?
200
Due to factors like a change in health status, acute illnesses, immobility from hospital stay, and staff unfamiliarity with a resident's needs, wants, or routine, pressure ulcers most often develop during this timeframe.
What is the first two weeks after nursing home admission?
200
This type of environment allows rapid migration of epithelial cells of across the ulcer surface to promote healing and is important in healing open wound ulcers.
What is a moist environment?
200
These two types of ulcers may present with little pain
What are stage III and stage IV ulcers?
200
These tissue layers become thinner with age (2).
What are the subcutaneous and dermal layers?
200
When assessing depth this instrument should be used.
What is a gloved finger or cotton-tipped swab?
300
A common source of moisture that can damage the skin.
What is incontinence, perspiration, or wound drainage?
300
This procedure involves using special devices or dressing to remove necrotic tissue.
What is mechanical debridement?
300
This type of ulcer looks most like a blood blister or bruise
What is a deep tissue injury/ DTI?
300
This type of fiber becomes less organized, leading to a loss of elasticity.
What is collagen?
300
This type of tissue is found at the base of the ulcer and is red and bumpy.
What is granular tissue?
400
Even with adequate care, this type of nursing home resident may develop a pressure ulcer.
What is a terminally ill resident?
400
This is a layer of skin that has its own blood supply that is used in surgical procedures to repair an ulcer.
What is a free flap?
400
This type of wound extends beyond the visible endpoint of the ulcer
What is tunneling?
400
Delayed healing time in aging skin is caused by a change in frequency of this.
What is cell renewal?
400
Redness, warmth, induration, swelling, and a putrid odor may be signs of this.
What is infection?
500
Wheelchair bound patients need to shift their weight and relieve pressure this often.
What is every 15-20 minutes?
500
This type of dressing is water-based, comes in a tube, and should be used on ulcers with minimal drainage.
What is amorphous hydrogel?
500
This type of ulcer is obscured by slough or eschar.
What is unstageable?
500
Due to thinner skin, the elderly are prone to getting pressure ulcers here.
What is a bony prominence?
500
Thick, yellow, cloudy drainage is described as this.
What is purulent?