treatment modalities
Dressing choices
Wound types
Debridement choices
Pressure injuries
100
I am form of debridement and used by physical therapist
What is pulse lavage
100
I am one of the first dressing you maybe familiar with and I am available thick or thin and can be left on for 3-5 days you either love me or hate me.
What is a hydrocoliod?
100
I am most commonly found on the pelvic girdle and heels
What is a Pressure Injury?
100
I am the only enzymatic debriding agent on the market today?
What is santyl ?
100
You can see or feel structures in the wound bed.
What is a Stage 4 PI
200
I am used in wound centers and am particularly effective with diabetic ulcers.
What is Hyperbaric oxygen chambers or HBO
200
I am made from seaweed and I am very absorptive I am used for moderate to heavily draining wounds
What is a calcium alginate ?
200
I am a result what sometimes referred to as cardiac disease of the lower exstremity and result in punched out dry wounds on the digits the malleolus of the foot.
What is a arterial ulcer?
200
I use the bodies own enzymes in conjunction with a moisture retentive dressing.
What is autolytic debridement?
200
Adipose tissue is visble in the wound bed.
What is a Stage 3 PI?
300
I use ultrasonic mist for wound debridement
What is Mist therapy
300
I am a protein that gives skin its tensile strength I provide a scaffolding for new tissue growth
What is Collagen?
300
Edema is associated with me I tend to re-occur and have irregular edges.
What is a venous ulcer?
300
You have to go to the O.R. to get me.
What is surgical debridement?
300
I am pink and shallow moist or dry.
What is a Stage 2 Pressure injury?
400
I am a commonly know as the Vac but my true name is
What is Negative pressure wound therapy
400
I am cool and soothing add moisture to wounds assist in autolytic debridement and come in many forms.
What is a hydrogel?
400
I most commonly appear on the digits of the lower exstremity I can be dry or wet.
What is Gangrene?
400
I am the quickest form of debridement.
What is sharps?
400
I have slough or eschar in the wound bed and you cannot see the base of the wound.
What is a Unstageable Pressure Injury
500
I am used by physical therapist to stimulate wound closure
What is e-stim
500
I was one of the first dressing invented I am simple thin and clear and can be left on for 3-7 days
What is a transparent dressing?
500
I am the result of a chronic uncontrolled condition and appear on the plantar aspect of the foot.
What is a diabetic foot ulcer.
500
I am painful and non selective and old school. Surgeons like me.
What is mechanical debridement.(wet to dry)
500
I erupt quickly despite optimal treatment and intervention can decline quickly.
What is Deep tissue Injury?