bandaging Flashcards
indications for bandaging
- Support suture lines
- Early wound management
- Management of granulation tissue
- Owner convenience
Bandage Function
- Pressure
- Support
- Promote wound environment
- Aesthetics
Pressure Bandages function
- Obliterate Dead Space
- Reduce Limb Edema
- Control Hemorrhage
- Control Granulation Tissue**
support bandages function
- Mechanical
- Circulatory
- Immobilization
ideal bandage material
- Inexpensive
- Conformable
- Capable of desired function
- Free of particulate matter
- Inert
- Gas permeable
- Easily sterilized
- Aesthetically pleasing
bandage layers**
- Primary (Contact) Layer: Dressing
- Secondary (Intermediate) Layer:
- Padding
- Absorption
- Tertiary (Outer) Layer: Occlusive
primary layer
- Sterile
- Maintain wound contact: Held in place with Kling gauze
- Conduct exudate: Capillary
-adherent or non adherent (occlusive or non-occlusive)
adherent dressing
- Dry – to – Dry
- Wet – to – Dry
- Wet – to – Wet
Dry – to – Dry Dressings
Debridement:
* Remove exudate
* Remove dead tissue
* Remove superficial granulation tissue
Wet – to – Dry Dressings
- Debridement
- Reduces exudate viscosity
- Enhanced capillary action
Wet – to – Wet Dressings
- Minimal debridement
- Enhanced capillary action
- Minimal adherence
- High fluid producing wounds
Non-Adherent Dressings
- Gentle on tissue
- Occlusive
- Semi-occlusive
- Non-occlusive
dressing materials
-primary later: tefla and maybe gauze 4x4 squares
-secondary layer: quilt, sheet cotton, gamgee
-tertiary layer: brown gauze, vet wrap, lightplast, elastoplast
secondary layer
- Absorption: Capillary Action
- Pressure distribution
- Support
Tertiary Layer
- Pressure Application
- Pressure Factor”:
- < 30 Minutes Without Elastics
- 50 % Stretch For Elastics
- Protection From Elements
tie over bandage (stent bandage)
difficult to bandage areas
vaccume bandage
Ventilated Thermoplastic Mesh
Bandage
reasons to bandage
-provide support to tendons
-reduce or prevent swelling
-protect the legs from concussions and impact
-protect wound from contamination
equine types of bandages
-working
-traveling
-resting
-recovery
stable wraps
-support tendons and ligaments during stabling, after exercise and after injury
-NEED TO BE CHANGED DAILY
-if applied wrong can cause SDTF tendinitis (bowed tendon)
-layer of quilt/ padding then layer of cloth or vet wrap
half bandage limb
-used for : support and immobilization, protection of wounds
materials:
-roll cotton
-brown gauze/ kling
-vet wrap
-elastoplast
-left in place for 3-5 days
hindlimb bandage
-applied from heel bulb to stifle region
-figure 8 over the dorsal aspect of the tarsus leading the point of the hock open, make slit in cotton padding
robert jones bandages
-provide extensive support and immobilization
-temporary fracture support
-severe lacerations
-multilayer application of cotton rolls or polo wraps, each layer held in place with brown/ kling gauze
-the diameter of bandage is 3x the diameter of the limb
