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Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Soft Tissue Trauma

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A 30 year old boy was brought to hospital after a knife cut. Under sterile conditions where there are no organisms present, type of wound is?
  1. clean wound.
  2. contaminated wound
  3. Infected wound
  4. Colonized wound
Explanation
Answer: A - According to level of contamination, a wound can be classified as:

A) Clean wound - made under sterile conditions where there are no organisms present
B) Contaminated wound - usually resulting from accidental injury
C) Infected wound - the wound has pathogenic organisms present and multiplying,
Colonized wound - a chronic situation, containing pathogenic organisms,
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