Question

Tony, 14-year-old male, presents to the health center with his counselor with a bleeding full skin thickness laceration to his right knee. Tony stated, “I fell on a rock yesterday while playing paint ball and it gashed my knee.” The counselor said Tony told his counselor that, “it was taken care of…” and he assumed Tony was seen at the health center when another counselor was covering for his day off. Tony said he has not been treated at the health center and washed the laceration out and applied a Band-Aid himself. He ran out of Band-Aids today when the laceration began to bleed again and came for treatment at this time.

Answer 1

This patient is at risk for developing infection as lacerations are open wounds and can act as an entry point for invasion of microorganisms. In order to prevent this the patient has to be administered Tetanus toxoid vaccination. Antibiotics to treat infection.

The bleeding has to be stopped after doing a aseptic or sterile dressing .

In order to treat pain analgesics as to be administered

In case of tye client has limited mobility or if there is sign of any fracture X ray kmee has to be done to rule out the cause.

The healthcare professionals negligence on the previous day on the client has to be addressed by informing to the concerned authorities.

Rest and elevation to prevent swelling.