Wound Healing

Question 1

What is a wound?

Answer 1

When any of the layers of the skin has been damaged

Question 2

How many main categories of wounds are there?

Answer 2

4

Question 3

Which wound heals quickly and as expected?

Answer 3

Acute wounds

Question 4

Acute wounds has minimal loss of what?

Answer 4

Tissue

Question 5

Which wound is an open wound?

Answer 5

Chronic wound

Question 6

As a result of an chronic wound damage tissue ends up being replaced by what?

Answer 6

Scar tissue

Question 7

What is the most important cell when it comes to chronic wounds?

Answer 7

Fibroblasts

Question 8

What are the 4 phases of wound healing?

Answer 8

1. Haemostasis
2. Inflammation
3. Proliferation
4. Maturation

Question 9

How many phases are there in wound healing?

Answer 9

4

Question 10

When does the stage haemostasis start?

Answer 10

Immediately following an injury to blood vessels

Question 11

How many stages are in the stage haemostasis?

Answer 11

3

Question 12

What are the 3 stages of haemostasis?

Answer 12

Vasoconstriction, the formation of a platelet plug, the biochemical response

Question 13

What happens in haemostasis vasoconstriction stage?

Answer 13

Blood vessels constrict. This causes the wound to ‘close’. As a result there is less or no bleeding from the wound

Question 14

What does the inflammation stage involve?

Answer 14

Both a cellular and vascular response

Question 15

What stage of healing cleans up any pathogens/ organisms and dead/ dying tissue?

Answer 15

Inflammation