Wound Healing
In the healing process, this wound has edges that are aseptically created and are typically closed by sutures, staples, or glue
What is first intention healing?
What is a clean wound?
Wound debridement will require this procedure to properly explore and assess the injury.
What is sedation or general anesthesia?
A Penrose drain is an example of this type of drain
What is a passive drain?
This type of wound is caused by another animal causing a puncture.
What is a bite wound?
This phase of wound healing takes place when the wound happens and is characterized by the formation of a blood clot
What is the inflammatory phase?
What is a clean-contaminated wound?
This type of debridement uses sterilized scissors and/or a surgical blade to allow removal of the necrotic tissue.
What is surgical debridement?
This type of drain creates a vacuum within the wound allowing the fluid to be collected into an external container.
What is an active drain?
This type of wound is created by the tearing off of a large section of skin from the underlying tissue.
What is a degloving injury?
This phase is marked by the start of granulation, epithelialization, and wound contraction
What is the proliferative phase?
This wound is an older wound that has signs of inflammation/infection.
What is a dirty wound?
This type of debridement uses enzymes such as collangenase to slowly digest the necrotic tissue.
What is enzymatic debridement?
The presence of this finding on wound evaluation leads to the placement of a drain - a space between tissues that allows fluid to accumulate.
What is dead space?
This type of wound is created commonly after a vehicular injury causing partial thickness dermal wounds
What is an abrasion?
This phase of wound healing usually begins about 3 weeks after injury and allows the wound to gain strength
What is the maturation phase?
This wound is an open wound, traumatically or surgically created, that is typically more than 6 hours old and has a major/clear break in asepsis.
What is a contaminated wound?
A wet-to-dry bandage is an example of this type of debridement technique.
What is mechanical debridement?
This is process by which a passive drain works, allowing the fluid to flow along the drain surface
What is capillary action?
This type of wound is created by tearing of skin and deeper tissues.
What is a laceration?
Administration of this medication can impair wound healing
What is a corticosteroid?
This wound typically has no break in the skin, classified as contusions or crushing injuries
What is a closed wound?
This is the removal of obviously contaminated, devitalized, or necrotic tissue and elimination of foreign debris.
What is the goal of debridement?
This process will remove hair in the lubricant, foreign debris, and necrotic tissue with use of copious amounts of fluids to flush the area.
What is wound lavaging?
This type of wound develops over bony prominences due to skin compression on hard flooring during long periods of recumbency
What is a decubitus ulcer?