When removing a bandage, you find it is slightly wet with drainage that is clear in color. In your documentation you will describe this drainage as …

A patient is two days post transfemoral amputation and demonstrates decreased strength and generalized weakness.  Which of the following positions should be used when wrapping the residual limb?

It is acceptable to prepare a sterile field for later use as long as the field is covered with a sterile towel and no one is allowed to enter or leave the room where the field is set up.

Unless the patient is sedated, the PTA should only debride a maximum of how many minutes?   

A patient receives a normal saline wet-to-dry dressing over a wound that is covered with a thick layer of slough.  The next day the dressing is completely dried out and removes approximately 60% of the slough when it is pulled from the wound bed.  This is an example of which type of debridement?  

For the patient in scenario 1, what is the optimal time for doing ROM with this gentleman, BID who is receiving a closed dressing technique?

You observe a burn on the dorsal surface of a patient’s arm.  The wound area is mottled red with a number of blisters.  The supervising PT informs the patient that healing should occur in less than three weeks.  The description best fits which of these?

What is the expected length of stay in the burn unit for the patient described in scenario 1question?

You are reading the surgical report in the chart of a patient that sustained extensive burns.  The report indicates that at the time of primary excision cadaver skin was used to close the wound.  This type of graft is termed: 

A patient presents with blisters to the face, chest right shoulder after lighting the grill with gasoline rather than lighter fluid.  Your supervising PT recommends that you remove the blisters the first day because…