Wound Healing: A Case Study

Part 1: What Is an Open Fracture? An open fracture is a broken bone that penetrates the skin. Compared to a broken bone that does not pierce the skin (a closed fracture), an open fracture increases your risk for infection. Therefore, immediate treatment is necessary.

Hemostasis Hemostasis is the process which halts bleeding after an injury. During hemostasis, the initial wound stimulates vasoconstriction in the wound bed to diminish blood loss while the exposure of collagen from the wound site causes the activation, aggregation and adhesion of circulating platelets to the damaged endothelium. This results in the degranulation of the adhered platelets that eventually formed the platelet plug via a positive feedback mechanism.

Introduction Inflammation, as described by Gilroy and Lawrence (2008), is a primitive response that aids against damage or injury to tissue. It is also described as the first step of restoring injured tissue back to its normal physiological purpose. We as humans, depend on inflammation because our survival and health is determined by how efficient the inflammatory response is when it comes to kick-starting the process of wound healing. In this essay, I will be discussing the anatomical pathology of inflammation, i.e. the causes, signs/symptoms and treatment of inflammation as well as discussing some articles pertaining to the mechanism of inflammation, how inflammation promotes the healing process, what occurs when one wants to induce inflammation,

It is not something which takes place following healing of skin grafts or discharge from hospital; instead it is a process that starts from day one of admission and continues for months and sometimes years after the initial event. Rehabilitation involves the physical, psychological and the social aspects of burn treatment. Burns can leave a patient with severely debilitating and deforming contractures, which can lead to significant disability when left untreated. The aims of burn rehabilitation are to minimise the adverse effects caused by the injury in terms of maintaining range of movement, minimising contracture development and impact of scarring, maximising functional ability, maximising psychological wellbeing, maximising social integration

This is how the body floods the area with oxygen, nutrients, antibodies to fight off invading organisms, and fibroblasts to carry on the wound-healing processes to the injured area. You may, however, see how sustained levels of cortisol in the bloodstream may actually interfere with the natural healing process and progressively decrease the body’s resistance to infections, swelling, and tumors of all

SIGNIFICANT LAB TESTS D – Dimer test D – Dimer test is a test to detect the formation of blood clots. Blood clots happen when the blood mix together with the protein, it will called fibrin. Another protein that called plasmin, break the clots apart. As the fibrin breaks down, levels of D – Dimer will increase. IMAGING

1. Wound healing process Wound healing, a physiological response to the disruption in tissue integrity, is a dynamic and complex process imperative for maintaining homeostasis. It consists of four partially overlapping phases, namely the inflammatory, migratory, proliferative and maturation phase. Notably, this process is non-linear wherein it can advance and retract through the phases depending on various factors within the patients. 1.1 Inflammatory phase Inflammatory phase can be further divided into hemostasis and inflammation, which is triggered immediately and last for about two to five days succeeding injury.

The aneurysm will be watched for sign of changes, by closely monitoring your thoracic aortic aneurysm with CT or MRI scans on a regular basis or every 6-12 months. High blood pressure is one of the particular symptoms of thoracic aortic aneurysm, if you have high blood pressure, your physician will prescribe blood pressure medication for you to lower at least your overall blood pressure and in the weakened area of the aneurysm. And there is this thing called a “statin” (or cholesterol lowering medication) to maintain the health of your blood vessels. 2.

THROMBOSIS When a blood vessel is injured, the cells of your blood bond together to form a blood clot. The blood clot helps you stop bleeding. Blood clots are made of a combination of blood cells, platelets (small sticky cells that speed up the clot-making process), and fibrin (protein that forms a thread-like mesh to trap cells). Doctors call this kind of blood clot a “thrombus.” Blood clots are good when they help seal a cut to stop bleeding.

This involves: providing adequate education to the patient with regard to the immunological function of the spleen and the risk of infection by encapsulated bacteria, vaccination and antibiotic prophylaxis as the cornerstone of preventative treatment against these

The injury will be protected shortly after the incident to prevent any further damage occurring to the injury as the ankle will be unstable. Rest is also an important factor in the healing time of the injury. The clinician will rest the injured area to prevent further trauma from occurring. Resting the ankle also reduces the metabolic rate in the tissue and therefore avoiding an increase in blood flow to the area. After resting the ankle joint for a short period, the clinician would then introduce ice to the area.

Sutured Wound Care Sutures are stitches that can be used to close wounds. Taking care of your wound properly can help prevent pain and infection. It can also help your wound heal more quickly. HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR SUTURED WOUND

5. The doctor then puts in some stitches for the incisions to heal 6. The infected limb will be wrapped; the wrap will need to be worn for approximately 3 weeks.

Symptoms include discoloration in the skin, pain in the affected area, infection, open skin, skin that does not lighten to the touch, skin may be softer or firmer than the surrounding skin. And the diagnosis for Decubitus Ulcer is when your doctor may refer you to a wound care team of doctors, specialists and nurses experienced in treating pressure sores. The team may evaluate your ulcer based on several important aspects. And they are the size and depth of the ulcer, the type of tissue (skin, muscle, and/or bone) directly affected by the ulcer, the color of the skin affected by the ulcer, the amount of tissue death that occurs from the ulcer and the condition of the ulcer (such as infection, foul odor, and bleeding). Also the physician also may take samples of the fluids and tissue found within the pressure sore.

One of the treatments suggested would be braces as those “can help keep muscles and tendons stretched and flexible, slowing the progression of contractures” (Muscular dystrophy 1998-2005). Another one would be get corticosteroid shots. These shots “can help improve muscle strength and delay the progression of certain types of muscular dystrophy” (Muscular dystrophy 1998-2005). Due to there not being a cure for this, the improvements associated with muscular dystrophy are also shown the help reduce pain and to become more mobile within one’s