NUR 101 Test 14
- Closed wound
Answer Exists when there are no breaks in the skin. Contusions or swelling from fractures are common.
- open wound
Answer an injury in which the skin is interrupted, exposing the tissue beneath
- acute wound
Answer A wound that is expected to be of short duration. In a healthy person these wounds heal spontaneously without complications through the three phases of wound healing.
- Chronic wound
Answer Wounds that exceed the expected length of recovery usually because of natural healing process has been interrupted or stalled because of infection continued trauma ischemia or edema. These wounds include pressure injury or arterial, Venus, and diabetic ulcers. These wounds are frequently colonized with several types of bacteria and healing is slow due to the underlying disease process.
- Clean wounds
Answer an uninfected wound with minimal inflammation
- Clean contaminated wounds
Answer Surgical incisions that enter the GI, respiratory, or genital urinary tracts. There is an increased risk of infection for these wounds but there is no obvious infection 1 / 3
- Contaminated wounds
Answer Include open traumatic wounds or surgical incisions in which a major break in asepsis occurred.The risk of infection is high for these wounds
- Infected wounds
Answer Are those in which the bacteria in the wound are above 100,000 organisms per gram of tissue
- Abrasion
Answer A scrape of the superficial layers of the skin usually unintended but may be performed intentionally for cosmetic purposes to smooth skin surfaces
- Abscess
Answer A localized collection of pus resulting from invasion from a pyrogenic bacterium or other pathogens must be opened and drained to heal
- Contusion
Answer A closed wound caused by blunt trauma may be referred to as a bruise or ecchymosis
- Crushing
Answer A wound caused by force leading to compression or disruption of tissues often associated with fracture usually there is a minimal or no break in the skin
- Excoriation
Answer Superficial wound usually self-inflicted due to excessive scratching or mechanical forces 2 / 3
- Incision
Answer An open intentional wound caused by a sharp instrument
- Laceration
Answer The skin or mucous membranes are torn open resulting in a wound with jagged margins
- Penetrating
Answer An open wound in which the agent causing the wound lodges in the body tissue
- Puncture
Answer An open wound by a sharp object often there is a collapse of tissue around the entry point making this wound prone to infection
- Tunnel
Answer A wound with entrance and exit sites
- Superficial wounds
Answer Involve only the epidermis layer of the skin the injury is usually the result of friction shearing or burning
- Partial thickness wounds
- / 3
Answer Extend through the epidermis but not through the dermis