NURS 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Focal Infection Theory, Rodent, Orthohantavirus
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Careful with approach to ensuring things are clean and disinfected and protecting ourselves. Lays on back a lot, pressure ulcers, infection, not turned often. When it is healing there should be a little discharge because it is cleaning itself. Don"t want it to get to the rest of the system. Blood odor changing to rancid: be concerned. Irrigate with normal saline so you don"t kill good cells. Don"t want to cause influx or efflux of electrode. Granulating tissue is at base of wound. General purpose culture because you don"t know the purpose of the organism. Culture at the center of the granulated tissue. What is living and breeding in the wound. Let it sit too long, may not be viable anymore. Identify patient, state location of culturing, wound culture, time you took it. Could be a true pathogen or opportunistic organism. Various microbes are living and breeding in wound or other places.
