Hemostasis: order in wound healing? How many days does it last? When does it start?
✅-First stage
-Lasts 1-3 days
-starts within 24 hrs of injury
-Body starting to call stuff in
Inflammation: Order in wound healing? How many days does it last? What is activated?
✅-2nd in wound healing
-Lasts from 3-8 days
-Leukocytes, macrophages do digestion
-Exudate present
-Can be slowed if pt is immune comp
Proliferation: Order in wound healing? How many days does it last? What happens?
✅-3rd in wound healing
, -lasts from 8-30 days
-Angiogenesis: builds new BVs to the site
-Granulation tissue (pink)
Maturation: order in wound healing? How long does it last? What happens? ✅-4th in
wound healing
-Lasts from 21 days to 2 years
-Pigmentation returns (can take longer in diff ethnicities)
Wound healing comorbidities ✅-long inflammatory/disease processes
-Mobility issues
-Nutrition/protein lvs
-Size/depth of wound as it evolves
-Continued trauma to the site
-Dryness/wetness of wound bed
-Biofilm/edema
-Chronicity of the wound
-Area of the wound (bony prominences)
Chronic wound definition ✅-3 months or longer
-Ciculation disorders
-Continuation of the inflammatory process
-Biofilm within wounds
-Edema/drainage
-Treatment acceptance/modalities
-Dependent on co-morbidities
Partial thickness wound ✅-Superficial, epidermal, or minimal dermal depth
-No signs of slough (yellow exudate)
-Usually heal through naturally occurring phases
-Can be stage II pressure injury
-Skin tear seen w/geriatric/neonate pops
Full thickness wound ✅-Dermal
-Deeper layer: SQ, Muscle, bone
Full thickness wound: Causes ✅-Surgical
-Trauma
-Pressure injury
-Vascular
-Diabetic
-May have eschar cover (Black/deep brown- LEAVE IT ALONEEE)
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