Wound Types
A wound where the skin is completely pulled away from the body.
What is an avulsion?
Also known as a bruise, the most common closed wound. Occurs when the soft tissues are impacted and blood vessels are ruptured, resulting in skin discoloration.
What is a contusion?
An injury to the soft tissues
What is a wound?
What time frame should stitches be applied?
The first few hours of injury
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When the body part is severed and damage to tissues has occured.
What is an Amputation?
What is an abrasion?
Skin that has been scrapped or rubbed away.
A wound with a break in the skin’s surface.
What is an open wound?
What do tourniquets do?
They stop the flow of blood from arteries and veins to the wound.
When a body part is subjected to a high degree of pressure?
What is a crash injury?
What is a laceration?
When the skin is cut with a jagged or smooth edge from a sharp object.
A wound in which soft tissue damage occurs beneath the skin and the skin is not broken.
What is a closed wound?
When should you remove an imbedded object that is not small?
If the object interferes with CPR.
When the skin is pierced with an object.
What is a puncture?
What is the difference between lacerations and abrasions?
Lacerations-
Abrasions-
Body structures that include the layers of skin, fat and muscles.
What are the soft tissues?
What should you put on the container with an amputated body part before it travels?
The persons name it belongs to, the time you put it in the container and the date.
Name all different types of wounds.
1. Abrasions
2. Lacerations
3. Avulsions
4. Amputations
5. Punctures or Penetrations
6. Crash Injuries
What type of damage is usually severe with crash injuries?
Internal damage
The three layers of the skin and soft tissues that help categorize wound severity.
What is the dermis, epidermis, and hypodermis?
What do closed wounds affect?
The soft tissues and vessels underneath the unbroken skin.