Tech in Surgery Prep / Unit 26 TSC 632 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Dressings and Their Purpose
The idea
A dressing covers and protects a wound, and its type is chosen for the wound and the amount of drainage.
In practice
Learn what a dressing does, in order. First, it protects the wound from contamination and injury. Second, it keeps the right level of moisture in the wound bed: neither too dry nor too wet. Third, it absorbs drainage, with more absorbent dressings used where drainage is heavy. Fourth, it can support the wound or apply gentle pressure, with bandages or binders. Fifth, it is applied with sterile technique over a fresh surgical incision.
Where people slip
The dressing is the last item to go on before the patient leaves the sterile field, and it is placed after the final count. Have it ready, open, and sized to the wound before closure ends.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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