Surgical Wound Healing Flashcards

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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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What hormone is decreased in response to injury?

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TSH

-everything else is increased

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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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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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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

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What is the initial event of neovascularization?

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directed migration of endothelial cells

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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

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What factors are involved in matrix and collagen remodeling?

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iron, copper, vitamin c

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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
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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

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what is the consequence of ischemic tissue?

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

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What deficiency causes this? | -slow re-epithlization, decreased collagen synthesis, increased infection
vitamin a
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What deficiency causes this? | -unstable collagen produced
vitamin c | -essential co-factor for collagen synthesis
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which vitamin deficiency coincides with deficiency of clotting factors 2,7,9,10 and increased chance of hematoma
vitamin k
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what deficiency causes this? - impaired immune responses, decreased protein and collagen synthesis, interference with vitamin a transport - dna/rna polymerases
zinc
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What type of sutures are these? - poly amide (nylon) - poly ester (dacron) - poly propylene (prolene)
synthetic non-absorbables silk linen is a natural non-absorbable
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what type of sutures are these? - poly glactin (vicryl) - poly glycolic acid (dexon) - polyglyconate
synthetic absorbable -catgut is natural absorbale
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what are the characteristics of absorbable sutures?
- subq tissue - eliminate dead space - minimize tension on wound edges - may spit if placed too superficially
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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
Polyglycolic acid -Dexon
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-type of suture- - synthetic heteropolymer - braided, multifilament, coated - hydrolytically absorbed - stronger than dexon - can be impregnated with antibiotic triclosan
Polyglactin -vicryl
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-Type of suture- - absorbable synthetic - monofilament; glycolic acid and trimethylene carbonate - 75% of original str at 2 weeks
Polyglyconate -maxon
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characteristics of non-absorbable sutures
used on skin - deep suture to provide prolonged mechanical support - should be tight enough to approximate not strangulate tissues
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-type of suture- - monofilament, dyed or undyed - isotactic crystalline stereoisomer of polypropylene - BLUE
- polypropylene | - prolene
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which suture has lots of memory and lots of knot slippage
Nylon
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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
Horizontal mattress
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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
Vertical mattress
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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
retention sutures
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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?
subcuticular suturing
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what is the treatment for hypertrophic scars?
cortisone injections - decreases the level of collagenase inhibitors and increase collagen degradation - kenalog 40 directly into the scar
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when do you remove dorsal, medial, or lateral sutures? and when do you removed plantar sutures?
14 days 21 days