MP&S Midterm Flashcards
- in which phase is epithelialization present?
Inflammatory
- what occurs if inflammatory phase is prolonged?
Hypertrophic scar or keloid
- In which phase are there high levels of collagen, and scar is visible and occurs 2-3wks after wounding?
Remodeling phase
- What is not a phase of wound healing?
Fibroblastic phase
- What is the best method for getting optimal healing and cosmoses?
Primary healing
- What is the golden period for everything but face?
<12h
- If there’s superficial loss of epithelium and the dermis is intact?
Abrasion
- what has the greatest tensile strength?
2-0
- what defines an infected wound?
> 100K of one organism
- what has the least tissue reactivity?
Staples
- when do you avoid epinephrine w lidocaine?
Finger
- what is an exception to closing a wound?
human bite, garm injury, crush injury
- what is the most extensive injury?
Crush injury
- what risk factor is unable to be controlled?
Age
- peak tissue reactivity?
2-7d
- which suture material is least likely to harbor bacteria?
Monofilament
- what is the ability to return to former shape when working?
Memory
- what needle do you use to suture muscle, fat, fascia?
Tapered
- What is true about remodeling phase?
Can take up to 2y
- What suture technique would you use for a deep?
Buried
- What suture technique would you use for an OR drain to evert skin and spread tension?
Horizontal mattress
- What suture technique is for far far near near?
Vertical mattress
- What suture technique comes out if one breaks
Running
- How long should the tail be?
5-10mm
- How do you best space sutures?
Half
- What is the position most likely to be held by an anesthesiologist?
Day supervisor
- Who is never scrubbed?
Circulator
- Who counts things and keeps track?
Circulation
- Who has the highest rank?
Attending
- Who has the most experience and training?
Fellow
- What is disclosure?
Tell pt natural course of disease
- What is beneficence?
Provider must act in best interest of patient
- If the sister is the healthcare proxy and the wife shows up and the pt is unconscious in non-emergent?
sister
- If the jehovahs witness doesn’t blood what do you do?
Document refusal
- What do you have to disclose for a full knee replacement?
All of the above (risks, complications, lifestyle changes, name of surgeon)
- What is true?
16yo dropout works part time still needs parental consent
- Who regulates consent
State
- B&S what helps DM ulcers w no evidence?
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber
- Ulcer on medial malleolus w brown?
Venous stasis ulcer
- B&S what is true about elderly wounds?
Ischemia is more likely
- D book: what is more tetanus prone and needs prophylaxis?
Burn/frostbite
- Which throw has double loop?
1st Throw
- What suture material do you use for scalp?
Staples
- What do you do w a laceration that is too swollen?
Undermine edges and approximate to suture acutely
- What is the term used to remove necrotic tissue?
Debridement