Exam 8: Soft-Tissue Injury

Wounds initially weep fluids called ____.

A(n) ____ starts as a small abscess following a puncture wound from a nail or needle, but can become a life-threatening soft-tissue infection.

In a crush injury, massive forces compress the limb, causing extensive damage to muscle cells, leading to a condition called ____ syndrome.

A laceration that extends past the dermis will reach a layer of loose connective tissue called the ____.

Soft-tissue injuries are not life-threatening issues.

During the healing process, new blood vessels are formed to provide the growing tissue with nutrients, a process called ____.

A(n) ____ injury occurs when the genitals (in particular) and the perineum (in general) strike an object.

Ordinarily, severe bleeding cannot be controlled with direct pressure.

A(n) ____ is the separation of a limb or digit by a shearing force.

The skin has folds, or static tension lines called ____ lines. In between these lines there is also tension.

Rabies has to be suspected whenever any mammal bites a human.

Tourniquets can produce direct trauma to the skin, including pressure necrosis and friction burns.

Skin glues are not used with pediatric patients.

____, lesions that can develop up to one year after an injury and are thought to be due to genetic influences, are the result of an overgrowth of scar tissue.

A traumatic force that tears, cuts, or rends the flesh, leaving a jagged wound, creates a(n) ____.

A(n) ____ agent facilitates the coagulation of blood to stop hemorrhage by collecting clotting factors.

During the ____ stage of wound healing bleeding is controlled.

A(n) ____ penetrates through the skin and can be either be superficial or full thickness.

____ are ulcerations of the skin that occur because of prolonged pressure along prominences of the body such as the sacrum, elbows, knees, and ankles.

____ are actually an ancient means of wound closure, as they appeared in ancient Hindu medicine.