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Comprehensive Wound Care – Questions/Answers (A+)
Comprehensive Wound Care – Questions/Answers (A+)
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Comprehensive Wound Care – Questions/Answers (A+)This structure is important to keep the top skin layers together, and as we age
the decreased effect from these structures can contribute to skin tears
Right Ans - Rete pegs
Adult human skin is thickest in what area of the body? Right Ans - ·Palms
and soles of the feet
Which statement regarding skin across the lifespan is INCORRECT? -
· Adult dermal turnover is about every 21-42 days
· Impaired tensile strength
· Fetal healing can be scarless
· Increased sweating in the elderly is common Right Ans - Increased
sweating in the elderly is common
What is routinely performed to screen for osteomyelitis? Right Ans - ·
Probe to bone
What term describes wound edges that have curled over on themselves and
stopped epithelial migration due to contact inhibition? Right Ans - · Epibole
,Which drainage type will appear clear or light yellow? Right Ans - · Serous
When assessing the periwound over a leg ulcer with moderate drainage a
moist white tissue is seen. What term likely describes this tissue? Right Ans
– Maceration
Visual assessment reveals dry material beneath the nail plate. This should be
documented as Right Ans - Subungual Debris
, A leg ulcer presents with large lobes of burgundy moist tissue across 100% of
the wound base. The patient reports that the tissue bleeds easily. This tissue
type is most likely: Right Ans – Hypergranulation
What stage is a pressure injury that presents as a blood-filled blister
surrounded by persistent non-blanchable maroon and purple discoloration
over the bony prominence of the left heel Right Ans - Deep Tissue Injury
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