WoundSource Practice Accelerator: Wound Dressings 101

 

Test your knowledge based on your learning from the materials provided in the WoundSource Practice Accelerator program on Wound Dressings.

What dressing type is best indicated for a wound with light exudate?

What dressing type is indicated for moderately to heavily draining wounds?

Your patient has a full-thickness wound to the right lower leg. The drainage amount is heavy, and the wound tissue is 50/50 red granulation and slough. What dressing would be most appropriate?

There is a patient you are assessing with a stage 4 pressure ulcer to the coccygeal region. The wound is draining moderate serosanguineous exudate. The wound is 8×8×0.9cm with a tunnel at 3 o’clock, 3.5cm deep. What dressing would be most appropriate?

What type of dressing might be most appropriate for a wound with a biofilm present?

Ms. Smith has a skin tear to her right upper arm. The wound is partial-thickness and has light drainage. What treatment would you select?

What two dressings are most likely not reimbursed by insurance if the drainage is not a moderate amount?

What type of dressing promotes the most thermoregulation?

What type of dressing would be most appropriate when covering an exposed structure such as tendon or bone?

Your patient has diabetes and is wearing a total contact cast that will be worn for one week. There is a full-thickness neuropathic ulcer to the plantar aspect of the left foot. The wound is pale pink granulation, draining small serous exudate. What dressing would be most appropriate under the TCC?