WoundSource Practice Accelerator: Wound Hygiene

1. Impacting patients across the global health continuum, which percentage of the United States population has been affected by chronic wounds?

2. Which of the following is NOT an anticipated result of employing a wound hygiene protocol?

3. Which of the following most accurately represents the 4 steps of wound hygiene?

4. After it begins to form, in what time frame can biofilm reach maturity?

5. TRUE or FALSE: Unhealthy granulation tissue often has subtle differences in appearance from healthy granulation tissue and may be friable and bleed on contact.

6. Which of the following tissue types often appears as yellow or white, can vary between wet or dry, and may be difficult to distinguish from exposed tendon or joint capsule?

7. TRUE or FALSE: In a healing trajectory, wounds will always progress through the tissue types from least viable to most viable in a completely linear fashion.

8. When in the wound care continuum should clinicians implement a wound hygiene protocol?

9. Which of the following wound features will contribute most directly to determining the vigor with which one performs debridement?

10. TRUE or FALSE: Once a specific type of debridement is undertaken, that same method must be used at each debridement opportunity.