G9 Health Q3 Lesson 3 Wound Care, Bandaging, and Splinting

What do you call the damages in the skin that are secondary to external factors such as cuts or blow or due to a process that causes the break down of the skin?

These are scrapes injuries affecting only the topmost layer of the skin.

These are linear cut injuries caused by a sharp object. The edges of the wound are straight.

These are similar to incisions in a way that they may be linear injuries however they may also have a star-shaped appearance because of their jagged borders.

This is type of wound produced when a sharp object pierces the skin and causes a hole.

These are wounds that result from the loos of all layers of the skin.

These are wounds caused by blunt forces such as a blow. The blunt force damages underlying blood vessels but does not cause a break in the surrounding tissue.

It commonly defined as a break in the bone.

A fracture may be an open type when parts of the the broken bone jut out of the skin, or it can be a closed type when a bone is broken but the overlying skin remains intact.

Wound dressing are use to add pressure for a wound to stop bleeding. They are also used to promote wound healing, to protect the wound from infection, and to provide an open environment so that applied medications can be better absorbed by the wound.