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