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This Certified Wound Specialist (CWS) Exam Preparation document is your all-in-one resource to ace the CWS exam with confidence. Packed with detailed study notes, practice questions, and key concepts, this guide covers everything you need to know to pass the exam on your first attempt. The document includes: In-depth explanations of wound healing stages, tissue types, and wound classifications. Comprehensive coverage of wound care treatments, including debridement methods, infection control, and advanced therapies like hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Detailed breakdowns of common wound types, such as pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, venous ulcers, and arterial ulcers. Essential information on wound assessment tools, nutritional support for wound healing, and the latest evidence-based practices. High-yield topics like biofilm management, collagen types, and the role of growth factors in wound healing.

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<0.9 ABI
- answers-LEAD

>1.3 abi
- answers-non compressable

0.4 ABI
- answers-limb threatening critical ishcemia

0.5 ABI
- answers-severe ischemia

0.6-0.8 abi
- answers-boarderline perfusion

1.0-1.3 ABI
- answers-normal, can compress

2 sided textile dressings>
- answers-HYDROPHOBIC = DRY WOUND>
HYDROPHILIC = WET WOUNDs

30% less function in what resulting in injury for aging population?
- answers-nerve receptors.

5 points for wounds?
- answers-1 Maintain moist wound base,
2 protect periwound skin from maceration and mechanical stripping
3 adjust topical therapy per exudate levels
4 anticipate education needed to patient/caregivers
5 clinical decision making with evidenced based practice.

60% of chronic wounds have?
- answers-BIOFILM! maxtrix sheilds

74% of venous ulcers?
- answers-being with a trigger: dermatitus, edema, burns, dry itching.

A1C for wound healing?
- answers-6.5-7.0, BG 140/154

,ABCDE?
- answers-Assymetry
Border
Color
Diameter
Evolution

abcess?
- answers-accumulation of pus or purulent drainage, raised/red

ABI = 0.5-0.8 ?
- answers-use modified 25-30mmHG. uniboot

absorption of topical treatments?
- answers-scrotum, hair follicles, face, forearm, palm of the hand, plantar foot.

acrylate terpolymer film?
- answers-cavilon! protects skin from MASD

acute lymb ischemia?
- answers-thrombus: pulessness, pain, pallor, paresthesia, paralysis, polar = cold.

Acute osteo?
- answers-Diabetics, increased bone perfusion, caused by immune compromise, neuropathy and
arterial disease.

acute skin failure?
- answers-hypo perfusion leads to tissue death, simultaneously to critical illness.

Acute wound fluid?
- answers-promotes healing = proloferative cytokines, growth factors

Acute/chronic disease with albumin and prealbumin?
- answers-contribute to inflammation, results in serum level of those proteins leak through
capillaries into the tissue = edema.

age and skin?
- answers-neonates and infants skin absorbption risj is higher. Older = prolonged skin responce.

age in wound healing?
- answers-thinning epidermis, reduced barrier function as well as increased comorbidities

aging leads to?
- answers-altered fibroblast function leads to dermal antrophy, prolonged collagen synthesis
time.

,Alginates, hydrofibers, copolyers?
- answers-wet gelling dressings for wet wounds or moderate wounds.

Allergic contact dermatitis?
- answers-well defined, macules, papules, vesicles and diffuse rash.

Angiography?
- answers-invasive contrast catheter, definative atomic eval.

angogenesis?
- answers-formation of new vaculature for wound bed.

antimicorbial cover dressings have to?
- answers-be directly in contact with wound bed to work.

antimicrobial foams helpful for?
- answers-Hypergranuation

antimicrobial topical dressing selection?
- answers-Silver (alginate), medical honey, Cardexomer Iodoine, gentine blue (hydrofera),
Cutamed (attract and bind bacteria).

Antimicrobial wound dressings>
- answers-cardexomer iodine, Honey, polyhexamethylel biguanide, methylene blue &gentian
violet, Silver and DACC (cutamed binder)

antiplatelet meds in venous issues?
- answers-aspirin= improves walking speed, decrease strokes and vascular events. Clopidogrel
(plavix) readuce vascular deaths in LEAD.

appearance of arterial wounds?
- answers-pale, necortic, punched out cookie cutter wounds. minimal drainage.

Arterial location of wounds?
- answers-Distal foot, nonhealing tramatic injury some times lower leg.

arterial pain?
- answers-cramping throbbing pain, worsened with activity and elevation. Relieved by rest and
dependancy.

Arterial wound characteristics?
- answers-tips of toes, distal foot, lower leg: Punched out well defined areas, pale looking or
necrotic wound bed, minimal drainage

, Arterial wound patient pain?
- answers-pain worsens by activity, rest makes if feel better until advanced disease then only
dependency lessons pain.

associated clinical findings of arterial wounds?
- answers-diminished pulses, Abnormal ABI, not triphasic waveforms, infection common but not
in your face apparent.

associated clinical findings of neuropathic wounds>
- answers-LOPS, foot deformities, callus (macerated or dry.)

associcated clinical findings of venous wounds>
- answers-edema, hemosiderin staining, venous stasus dermatitis, periwound maceration.

Asymptomatic LEAD?
- answers-lower resting ABI < 0.9, no claudication no prior vascular event.

Atrophie blanche>
- answers-smooth localized white atrophic skin.

atrophy?
- answers-thinning of under tissue

Autlytic, selective debridement?
- answers-removal of necrotic tissue with the body: WBC's. proteolytic, fibrinolytic and
collegenolytic enzymes

Autolytic debridement is>?
- answers-slow, inappropriate for infected wounds. most effective on slough.

autonomic neuropathy manifestation?
- answers-anhidrosis, callus, interdigital or plantar fissures, Onychomycosis, peripheral edema,
chartcot.

autonomic neuropathy?
- answers-loss of vasomotor control, impaired microvascular skin perfusion, abnormal dryness or
fissures, evidence of fungal infection, LE hair growth

Avoid all creams where?
- answers-in skin folds!

Avoid compression?
- answers-<0.5, ankle pressure below 70, toe pressure below 50.

baby skin stratum cornium?
- answers-not really functional, thinner. major heat loss and systemic absorption increased

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