Wound Bed prep

The process of a delivering a fluid or cleansing solution to the wound by means of a specific mechanical force is cleaning a wound. Normal Saline is the preferred cleansing agent; however commercial cleansers are used as well. Commercial cleansers contain surface active agents known as:

Antiseptics
Wound
Surfactants
Lanaseptic

Your patient has a very large sacral wound that has 50% necrotic tissue and tendon exposed. The wound is infected, and needs to be debrided. What would be the best choice of debridement?
Whirlpool
Bio-surgical
Mechanical
Sharps

What are 5 types of debridement?

A common bacteria found frequently around hydro/respiratory equipment is:
MRSA
Strep
Proteus
Pseudomonas

There is no one specific laboratory test that indicates the diagnosis of osteomyelitis; however, three labs done together with positive or increased results could be indicative of osteomyelitis. What three tests would be obtained?

Presence of replicating microorganisms which do not cause injury to the host.

What are the 4 major components of wound bed healing?
think TIME

What does dead tissue exude and what does this inhibit?