BCU July 2024

If your patient has been commenced on PICO or NPWT, who should you refer to?

• Pharmacy

• TV team

• Community nurses

• Doctors

What must you do if you are packing a cavity wound?

• Tell the Doctor

• Put as many dressings in as possible

• Document the amount of dressings used

What would you use to pack this wound?

• Inadine

• Gauze

• Betadine soaks

• Aquacel

In what patient groups would you not use a silver dressing?

• Virgo's

• Elderly

• Renal impairment

• Diabetics

If your patient needs an MRI scan which dressing would you need to remove prior to them going?

• PICO & Silver dressings

• Gauze & Hypafix

• Mepitel & Inadine

• Betadine soaks & Opsites

The Surgeon has asked you to apply Negative Pressure Therapy to your patients dehisced abdominal wound, you have never done it before and its not normally used in your clinical area, what would you do?

• Do it! Can't be that hard!

• Decline to apply it and ask a colleague who has been trained

• Ask TVN to come and do it

Do you think this wound is infected?

• No

• Yes

What pathway would you need to refer to for advice on how to dress this wound?

• Lower limb pathway

• Fungating wound pathway

• Chronic wound pathway

• Prontosan Wound Irrigation pathway

If your patient has a wound what should you complete at each dressing change?

Tick all that apply.

• Patients notes

• EPMA

• Chronic wound assessment chart.

Can you use NPWT on a malignant wound?

• Yes

• No