INTEGUMENTARY Flashcards
What are montgomery straps used for?
Used for dressing changes to avoid skin breakdown from removing tape. Used when patient has tape allergies or require frequent dressing changes
Patient has severe pain from burns. Which route of medication is more appropriate?
IV
Prealbumin reference range?
22 - 45
What does low prealbumin suggest?
Poor wound healing
A wound with primary intention means?
A wound with a close approximation of edges
Photochemotherapy prep?
Psoralen 2 hours prior
Small area of skin characterized as a change in pigmentation
Macule
Nurse intervention in event of evisciration?
Low fowler the patient, cover organ with sterile towel damp with sterile saline, notify provider by asking someone. Remain by client
Describe serous, sanguineous, serosanguineous, and purulent
Serous has clear or yellowish watery drainage
Sanguineous is blood stains
Serosanguineous has bout blood and serous fluid
Purulent has pus and smell weird
When dumping something sterile on a sterile field what is the distance?
6 inches above
The best solution to prep skin for IV insertions
Chlorhexidine
Patient with lice, how long before return to school
After the first treatment done
