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Review. Wound Assessment in Stable Setting. Appearance:Approximation
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1. Sterile Dressings Chapter 43 Potter & Perry
Chapters 37, 38 Perry & Potter
2. Review
3. Wound Assessment in Stable Setting Appearance:
Approximation Are wound edges closed? Surgical incision should have clean well approximated edges
Is there exudate?
Is there skin discoloration?
Are wound edges inflamed and/or swollen?
4. Drainage Amount color odor consistency
Type: Classifications of drainage
Serous clear, watery plasma
Purulent thick, yellow, green, tan or brown (pus)
Sanguineous bright red, indicates active bleeding (bloody)
Sero-sanguineous pale, red, watery; mixture of serous and sanguineous
5. Wound Drains Put in place to aid with drainage
Caution with dressing changes so as not to accidentally remove drain
Types:
Penrose oldest and was most widely used
Evacuator drainage (self-suction) exerts a constant low pressure
Hemovac
Jackson-Pratt