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What intention of wound healing has:
Minimum tissue loss
Uncomplicated and clean wound
Edges approximated and sutured, stapled, glued
Very little scarring
Primary Intention
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What intention of wound healing has:
Heals from inside out
Large gaping wound with irregular edges
Edges too far apart to suture
Fills in with granulation tissue
Prone to infection
Takes longer to heal, larger scar
Secondary Intention
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What intention of wound healing has:
Delayed primary closure
Wound left open until no sign of infection then sutured closed
Sutured after granulation begins
Wider and deeper scar
Tertiary Intention
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What stage of pressure ulcer:
skin intact, non-blanching
Stage I
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What stage of pressure ulcer:
Partial thickness loss of dermis
Stage II
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What type of pressure ulcer:
Full thickness tissue loss
Fat may be visible
No bone, tendon, or muscle visible.
Stage III
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What type of pressure ulcer:
Full thickness tissue loss c/
Bone, tendon or muscle showing
Stage IV
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What stage of pressure ulcer:
Full thickness tissue loss in which the base of the ulcer is covered by slough, and/or eschar in the wound bed.
Unstageable Pressure Ulcer
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What type of tissue is red or pink, moist, fleshy tissue made of many capillaries and fibrous collagen?
Granulation Tissue
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What is Evisceration?
When some innards are on the outers
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What is dehiscence?
When the stitches are busted apart and wound is opened back up.
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What are the 4 stages of the healing process?
- Inflammatory Process
- Inflammatory Phase
- Proliferative Phase
- Remodeling
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