Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Exercise 1

Place the following events that occur during healing by primary intention in sequential order from 1 (first) to 10 (last).
________a. Blood clots form
________b. Avascular, pale, mature scar present
________c. Accumulation of inflammatory debris
________d. Enzymes from neutrophils digest fibrin
________e. Epithelial cells migrate across wound surface
________ f. Fibroblasts migrate to site and secrete collagen
________ g. Budding capillaries result in pink, vascular friable wound
________ h. Contraction of healing area by movement of myofibroblasts
________ i. Macrophages ingest and digest cellular debris and red blood cells
________ j. Fibrin clot that serves as meshwork for capillary growth and epithelial cell migration