Lab1- Wound Care N Bandaging Flashcards
Hemostasis
Stop bleeding
Goals of managing wounds
Hemostasis
Clean and prevent further contamination
Promote healthy wound bed
Close wound if possible
Steps of wound care
- stop blood flow
- Obtain history
- Complete PE
- Clip and prep wound
- Lavage
- Select healing method
- Surgery and prescription
3 tenets of stomping blood flow
Pressure, elevation, bandaging
What does “mechanism of injury” mean ?
How did the injury occur
If it’s a bite wound you must
Obtain vaccination history of patient and animal that bit the patient
Things that could affect white blood count and cause slow healing
FIV, chemotherapy, hypothyroidism
While assessing a wound you must identify
Type; age, extent, presence of infection
How to aspirate for pus
Attach needle to syringe, insert needle where abscess suspected, draw small amount of fluid, examine
What you should do before clipping hair around wound
Fill wound with KY jelly, sterile lube, or petroleum jelly
To lavage a wound use a ____ cc luer lock syringe w a _____G needle
35cc, 19G
To lavage a wound, you could use ___% saline
0.9%
To lavage a wound, you could use a chlorhexidine solution of ____%
Add _____ mL chlorhexidine solution to a 1 L bag 0.9% swine
.05%
Add 25 mL to a 1 L bag
To lavage a wound, you could use povidone iodine solution ___%
Add ____ mL to a ___L of 0.9% saline
.1%
Add 10mL to 1L
Part helpful to lavaging that stops and starts water flow
3-way stopcock
First intention wound healing-
Clean wounds less than 8 hours old
After lavaging, veterinarian closes with sutures