Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
Mario is a 35-year-old male who has come into your ER with a laceration to his left hand. According to Mario, he was working on home renovations in his 1945 city bungalow, when an old board fell from a shelf and injured his hand. The laceration is a cut about 3 inches long, but fairly shallow. It appears that it was bleeding pretty heavily, but he has stopped the bleeding by holding pressure on it with an old t-shirt. He said it happened about an hour ago.
-What will be the natural progression of healing for Mario,assuming that everything happens in its usual order?

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Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
  Mario is a 35-year-old male who has come into your ER with a laceration to his left hand. According to Mario, he was working on home renovations in his 1945 city bungalow, when an old board fell from a shelf and injured his hand. The laceration is a cut about 3 inches long, but fairly shallow. It appears that it was bleeding pretty heavily, but he has stopped the bleeding by holding pressure on it with an old t-shirt. He said it happened about an hour ago. 
-What will be the natural progression of healing for Mario,assuming that everything happens in its usual order?

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The natural progression of healing begins with injury, followed by vascular reactions, then edema/pus formation, and finally scar formation. Exudative leaking and secondary injury are not typical stages of healing for a laceration.

Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question