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Healing and Repair of Damages Tissues
N/A
15
Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
07/01/2013

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Term
Types of Wounds
Definition

Clean

 

Clean contaminated

 

Contaminated

 

Grossly contaminated 

Term
Clean Wound
Definition
Surgical incission
Term
Clean Contaminated
Definition

Surgucal wound that became contaminated

 

Stiches come out

Term
Contaminated
Definition
Contaminated abrassion/lasseration
Term
Grossly Contaminated
Definition

Wound that happend in a dirty area

 

Wound that sat there for awhile and continually gt dirty 

Term
Types of Wound Healing
Definition

First intention (primary)

 

Second intention (secondary)

 

Third intention

Term

First Intention Healing

(Primary)

Definition

Surgical incisions/clean wounds

 

Able to bring two tissues together and stitch them up to heal 

 

Minimal tissue loss

 

Lower risk for infection 

Term

Second Intention Healing

(Secondary)

Definition

Left opened for healing large wounds

 

Allowing body to heal itself 

 

Fibroblasts and endothelial cells heal the wound

 

Granulation tissue - scars

 

Long healing time

 

Greater risk for infection

 

Term
Third Intention
Definition

Delayed primary closure

 

Wound is cleaned and allowed to heal

 

Eventually closed 3 - 5 days after

Term
Phases of Wound Healing
Definition

Inflammatory

 

Proliferative

 

Remodeling

Term

Inflammatory

(Early Wound Healing)

Definition

Hemostasis - clotting

 

Vasoconstriction

Plattlets go to injury

Clotting factors

Fibrin

 

Dilation - redness, heat, swelling

 

Congestion - pain, function loss, adema

Term

Proliferative Phase

(Intermediate Wound Healing)

Definition

Mesenchymal cell migration and proliferation

 

Angiogenesis - capilarry formation 

 

Epithelialization - not as strong 

Term

Remodeling Phase

(Late Wound Healing)

Definition

Collagen chages from type 3 to type 1

 

Cintraction - scar

 

Over months

Term
Scars
Definition

Hypertrophic - occurs only at site of injury

 

Keloid - overhealing 

Term
Treatment of Scars
Definition

Medical - creams/gels

 

Surgical - risk of another scar

 

Dermabrasion

 

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