Wound Healing quiz
The stages of repair, what stalls them, and how to tell ordinary healing from an early complication.
Wound Healing — common questions
- Do I need the stages in order?
- Yes, because questions ask whether what you are seeing is expected at this point. The same appearance can be normal at one stage and a warning at another, and only the sequence tells you which.
- How do I spot infection versus normal healing?
- By comparing what is described against what the current stage should look like. Some redness and drainage belong to normal repair; the question is whether the amount, the timing and the character fit the stage the patient is in.
- What slows healing down most?
- Poor perfusion, poor nutrition, and blood sugar that is not controlled. When a stem mentions any of those in passing, it is usually there to explain why healing is not progressing as expected.