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Surgical Wound Healing Flashcards

1
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  • Involves epidermis and dermis w/o total penetration of dermis
  • minimized scarring
  • most surgical wounds healed by this
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Primary Intention

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  • wound allowed to granulate
  • process slowed by drainage from infection
  • leaves big scar
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Secondary Intention

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  • delayed primary closure
  • wound cleaned, debrided, and observed 4-5 days prior to closure
  • wound purposely left open
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Tertiary intention

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4
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What hormone is decreased in response to injury?

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TSH

-everything else is increased

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5
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What happens in the early phase of metabolic response to injury?

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  • dec body cell mass
  • VASOCONSTRICTION -to conserve volume
  • change in energy source
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What are the stages of tissue healing?

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  1. inflammation
  2. repair/fibroblastic
  3. remodeling
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what factors are involved in the vascular and inflammatory phase?

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  • subendothelial factor VII
  • hageman fator xii
  • platelet derived growth factor
  • histamine
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what process is critical for a wound to be considered ‘healed’?

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re-epithelization phase

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what is the initial event of re-epithelization

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-migration of undamaged epidermal cells from the wound edges

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what is important for the migration of undamaged epidermal cells from wound margins?

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water content because cells seek level of critical humidity

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11
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why do ulcers have a HPK rim?

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there is increase in epithelial proliferation at wound margins

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What is this?

  • crosslinks with fibrin to provide matrix for cell adhesion and migration
  • promotes phagocytosis
  • forms scaffolding for collagen deposition
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-Fibronectin

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What is granulation tissue made up of?

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  • inflammatory cells
  • fibroblasts
  • new vasculature in hydrated matrix of glycoproteins
  • collagen
  • GAGs
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What factors are involved in fibroplasia and matrix formation?

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EGF-epidermal growth factor
MDGF-macrophage derived
PDGF-platelet derived

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what are the processes of fibroplasia and matrix formation?

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  • differentiation of myofibroblast
  • fibronectin crosslinks
  • migration of myofibroblast
  • type 3 collagen fibers on scaffold
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16
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what contracts in wound contraction?

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-myofibroblasts and the attached surrounding tissue “fibronexus”

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What is a fibronexus?

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-intimate association between the membrane of myofibroblasts, intracellular actin and extracelluar fibronectin

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What factors are involved in neovascularization?

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  • Fibronectin

- macrophage derived angiogenic factor

19
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What is the initial event of neovascularization?

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directed migration of endothelial cells

20
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What is the process of neovascularization

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  • fragmentation of venule basement membrane
  • endothelial cells develop pseudopodia
  • pseudopodia protrude through the disrupted BM
  • entire cell migrates into the perivascular space

-these are stimulated by hypoxic conditions

21
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What factors are involved in matrix and collagen remodeling?

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iron, copper, vitamin c

22
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Processes of matrix and collagen remodelling?

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Fibroblasts->procollagen->collagen

  • collagen crosslinking
  • fibronectin disappears
  • water reabsorbed to allow collagen fibers to lie closer together
  • Type 3 collagen replaced by type 1 collagen
23
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Why is it important to manage your deadspace?

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because it can fill with bacteria and cause hematoma formation

24
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what is the consequence of ischemic tissue?

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-decreases: cell proliferation, resistance to infection, and collagen production

25
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What deficiency causes this?

-slow re-epithlization, decreased collagen synthesis, increased infection

A

vitamin a

26
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What deficiency causes this?

-unstable collagen produced

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vitamin c

-essential co-factor for collagen synthesis

27
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which vitamin deficiency coincides with deficiency of clotting factors 2,7,9,10 and increased chance of hematoma

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vitamin k

28
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what deficiency causes this?

  • impaired immune responses, decreased protein and collagen synthesis, interference with vitamin a transport
  • dna/rna polymerases
A

zinc

29
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What type of sutures are these?

  • poly amide (nylon)
  • poly ester (dacron)
  • poly propylene (prolene)
A

synthetic non-absorbables

silk linen is a natural non-absorbable

30
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what type of sutures are these?

  • poly glactin (vicryl)
  • poly glycolic acid (dexon)
  • polyglyconate
A

synthetic absorbable

-catgut is natural absorbale

31
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what are the characteristics of absorbable sutures?

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  • subq tissue
  • eliminate dead space
  • minimize tension on wound edges
  • may spit if placed too superficially
32
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-type of suture-

  • absorbable braided synthetic
  • homopolymer of glycolic acid
  • hydrolytically absorbed
  • good tensile str, excellent knot security
  • 2 week duration, 65% of tensile str remains
A

Polyglycolic acid

-Dexon

33
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-type of suture-

  • synthetic heteropolymer
  • braided, multifilament, coated
  • hydrolytically absorbed
  • stronger than dexon
  • can be impregnated with antibiotic triclosan
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Polyglactin

-vicryl

34
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-Type of suture-

  • absorbable synthetic
  • monofilament; glycolic acid and trimethylene carbonate
  • 75% of original str at 2 weeks
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Polyglyconate

-maxon

35
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characteristics of non-absorbable sutures

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used on skin

  • deep suture to provide prolonged mechanical support
  • should be tight enough to approximate not strangulate tissues
36
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-type of suture-

  • monofilament, dyed or undyed
  • isotactic crystalline stereoisomer of polypropylene
  • BLUE
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  • polypropylene

- prolene

37
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which suture has lots of memory and lots of knot slippage

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Nylon

38
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which suture technique is used for longer wounds?

  • very strong
  • easier to evert edges
  • less time consuming
  • easier to strangulate skin edges
A

Horizontal mattress

39
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Which suture is good for deep wounds?

  • aids in reapproximation of deep tissue
  • pretty good for keeping tension off skin edges
  • harder to evert skin edges
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Vertical mattress

40
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Which suture is used to take tension off the skin edges and provide deeper and wider support to the healing incision

-hard to evert skin edges

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retention sutures

41
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which suture technique leaves a pretty to absent scar if done correctly and has a high rate of dehiscnece if not done properly?

A

subcuticular suturing

42
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what is the treatment for hypertrophic scars?

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cortisone injections

  • decreases the level of collagenase inhibitors and increase collagen degradation
  • kenalog 40 directly into the scar
43
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when do you remove dorsal, medial, or lateral sutures?

and when do you removed plantar sutures?

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14 days

21 days

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