How to Care for and Treat your Venous Ulcer.

Question 1

What do arteries do?

Answer 1

Carry blood away from your heart to the rest of your body.

Question 2

What do veins do?

Answer 2

Carry the blood back to your heart.

Question 3

What results from low blood flow?

Answer 3

Blood will collect in your feet and ankles, causing swelling and stretching. Then skin tears causing a venous, or stasis ulcer.

Question 4

Signs and symptoms of a venous or stasis ulcer.

Answer 4

Valve disfunction, stasis, Fibrin leak, red cell extravasation, haemosiderin deposition, hyper pigmentation, lipo- derm.

Question 5

Risk factors for venous ulcers.

Answer 5

Repeatedly standing in one place for a long time, not moving, tight clothing, crossing your legs, pregnancy, trauma or injury, being over weight, smoking, and direct heat.

Question 6

Which diabetic has little to no sensation?

Answer 6

Neuropathic Diabetic.

Question 7

What is an arterial ulcer?

Answer 7

caused by damage to smaller vessels. poor blood circulation.

ischaemia, PVD, DM, Vasculitis, RA, Trauma, scar tissue compression.

Question 8

Causes of an Arterial Ulcer.

Answer 8

Smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, ra, history of leg ulcers, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis.