Color and Exudate Flashcards

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Red in a wound?
Healthy tissue
Good blood flow
Pale Pink?
Poor blood flow
Anemia
Yellow Gray Black Or Brwn?
Non viable tissue
Exudate?
Drainage = Liquid that is produced by the body in response to tissue damage
Serous exudate?
Thin clear watery plasma
Sanguineous exudate?
Fresh bleeding; bloody
Serosanguineous drainage?
Thin watery pink to pale red plasma with RBC's
Seropurulent exudate?
Thin watery cloudy and yellow to tan in color
Purulent drainage?
Tan yellow green or brown thick and opaque
Never Normal in a wound
Clear or amber colored exudate?
Is serous exudate
Often normal in a wound
Cloudy or milky exudate?
May indicate autolytic debridement of necrotic tissue or infection?
Pink or red exudate?
Indicates the presence of red blood cells from capillary damage that is occurring
Green exudate?
Bacterial infection like pseudomonas aeruginosa
Yellow or Brown Exudate?
Slough or an enteric fistula
Gray or Blue Exudate?
Dressings containing exudate