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Surgery

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Face and Neck: leave suture in for:   3 – 5 days  
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Trunk: leave suture in for:   7 – 10 days  
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Upper extremities: leave suture in for:   10 – 12 days  
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Lower extremities: leave suture in for:   12 – 16 days  
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Do not close:   deep puncture wounds, human bites, grossly infected wounds (wounds should heal by secondary intention)  
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Wound closure: at 3-4 days if wound not infected:   delayed primary closure  
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Maximum dose lidocaine   7mg/kg with epi, 4.5 mg/kg w/o epi  
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Keep sutures in longer in pts with:   steroids, immunosuppression, poor nutrition  
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Suture size: chest   6 or 7  
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Suture size: abd closure   0 to 3  
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Suture size: skin   2-0 to 5-0  
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Suture size: CABG   6-0 to 8-0  
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Plain gut vs chromic:   Plain gut is more rapidly absorbed than chromic  
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Least reactive non-absorbable sutures   Nylon and polypropylene  
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Nylon sutures   High tensile strength, low tissue reactivity, excellent elasticity and pliability; Favored for construction of interrupted percutaneous closure  
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3 parts of suture needle   point; body; swage  
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On skin, always use this type needle:   Cutting needle (4-0)  
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Suture blood vessel:   8-0 for CABG; about 6-0 atraumatic (not cutting) for vessel  
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Suture type easiest to handle:   silk  
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Strength in properly tied square knot:   80-90% of strength of untied suture  
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Absorbable sutures: which are absorbed:   chromic  
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Can use lido w/epi on scalp?   Yes (not on fingertips, toes, ears, nose)  
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Plain gut: suture loses tensile strength after:   1-2 wks  
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Chromic: suture loses tensile strength after:   2-3 wks  
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Purposes of bandages   protect wounds from contamination and may also provide compression, support, and/or absorption  
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Purpose of dry dressing   where the skin is intact or the skin edges are approximated and present a dry surface  
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Purpose of non-adherent dressing   used if a wound has a raw surface  
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5 categories of bandage material   Gauze; Elastic adhesive; Muslin; Outing flannel; Cotton elastic  
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Gauze   generally used to hold dressings in place.  
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Elastic adhesive   preferred for fixation of dressings in areas where it is difficult to hold a bandage in place & where expansion and contraction is necessary (i.e. chest).  
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Muslin   used as straps and to hold traction tape in place on extremities.  
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Cotton elastic   woven in a manner that provides considerable elastic properties; used to lend support and apply even pressure.  
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Dressings may be held in place by:   adhesive strips, collodion spray or by bandaging  
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Use of Montgomery Straps:   (adhesive straps); when repeated dressing changes are required  
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Indication for: Circular bandage:   used over tubular structures such as the arm  
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Indication for: reversed spiral bandage:   used for tubular structures of changing diameter(leg or forearm)  
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Indication for: spica bandage:   used to cover two parts of unequal size such as the shoulder and chest or thumb and hand and groin  
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Indication for: recurrent bandage:   used on distal stumps  
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Indication for: figure-of-eight bandage:   used over joints, (elbows and knees)  
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Collodion spray   for small lacerations (esp scalp); saturate gauze layers w/ collodion  
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Wet dressings   used for infected wounds, which are left open and treated with regular irrigations.  
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Wet compresses   superficial applications; do not use wet compresses continuously for more than 24 hours or skin maceration and breakdown may occur  
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Types of supports used with dressings   metal, wooden, fiberglass, or plastic splints; plaster-of-Paris  
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Synthetic casts advantages   synth: hi cost, strong, light, short drying time, good for open fx  
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Plaster casts advantages   moldable, cheap, good for fresh fractures  
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5 complications from casts   Foreign body; Plaster burn; Pressure sores (fr wrinkles in the cast padding); Nerve Palsy & AV compromise; Loose-cast syndrome  
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Thumb spica splints   for simple thumb sprain; immobilization after lac repair; sprain and scaphoid fracture  
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Ulnar gutter splints   for 4th and/or 5th metacarpal fx  
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Radial gutter splints   for 2nd and/or 3rd metacarpal fx  
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Upper extremity posterior splints   for bicep tendonitis, radial head fx, stable distal humerus fx; following aspiration of olecranon bursa  
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Lower extremity posterior splints   for stable ankle fractures  
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3 indications for chest tube placement   pneumothorax; fluid in the chest (hemothorax, hydrothorax, chylothorax, empyema); prophylaxis for high risk patients undergoing pos pressure ventilation  
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3 types of pneumothorax   open (sucking); tension (one way air leak); simple (air btw visceral & parietal pleura)  
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Site for routine chest tube insertion   through the 4th or 5th interspaces in the anterior axillary line  
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Complications of tube thoracostomy   hemorrhage; infection; lung laceration; cardiac injury; subcutaneous placement; re-expansion pulmonary edema; intraperitoneal placement of tube  
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Pros & cons of minimally invasive surgery   pros: less pain; quicker; fewer complications. Cons: cost; training req; req genl anesthesia; loss of tactile sensation  
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Laparoscopic surgeries   Chole; appy; herniorraphy; colon resection; gastric bypass  
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Laparoscopy: CI   peritonitis; hypovolemic shock; abd distension / bowel obstruction; coagulopathy  
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Laparoscopy: complications   vascular/ visceral injury; acidosis; arrhythmias; extraperitoneal insufflation; pneumothorax; wound infxn  
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