Saddleback College Nursing N172
Midterm; Osteomyelitis Questions
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What is osteomyelitis?
✓ Severe infection of the bone, bone marrow, and surrounding soft tissue
Most common causative agent of osteomyelitis
✓ Staphlococcus aureus
Two ways an osteomyelitis infection can occur
✓ direct (open wound directly to site of bone, implants)
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✓ indirect (pathogen carried to bone by vascular network)
What is a sequestrum?
✓ piece of dead bone
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✓ usually within a bone (not directly at edge of bone - may be surrounded by healthy
bone, which makes it very difficult to access and tx with therapies)
Risk of a sequestrum
✓ may serve as a reservoir for micro organisms can spread to other sites
✓ pain that is unrelieved by rest and worsens with activity
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✓ swelling
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✓ tenderness
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✓ warmth at the infection site
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✓ restricted movement of the affected part.
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