Wound Infection: Pathological Basis, Sources, Antibiotics, and Treatment

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Table of Contents
Pathological basis of wound appearance....................................................................................1
Sources for contamination of the wound...................................................................................2
Endogenous Sources...............................................................................................................2
Mode of transmission..........................................................................................................2
Exogenous sources.................................................................................................................2
Mode of transmission..........................................................................................................3
The rationale of choice of Antibiotics........................................................................................3
Mode of action of dicloxacillin..............................................................................................4
Adverse reaction.....................................................................................................................4
The treatment process of Mary's wound....................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Pathological basis of wound appearance
A wound is an injury to the body that includes laceration or damage to the membrane.
Wound drainage also is known as the wound fluid or exudate. The wounds remain open may
exhibit different types of drainage like serous, sanguineous, serosanguineous and purulent.
The purulent type of drainage is milky in appearance. This type of drainages considered as
the sign of having an infection. This type of wound fluids are thick and opaque and may also
appear as green, yellow, white or brown in color. The drainage changes color and its
thickness due to the number of dead or living germ cells, as well as WBC (white blood cells)
present in the fluid (Wound Source, 2017). The patient in the given case study suffers from
extreme pain, and red swollen and worm wound. Person healing from the injury generally
finds their pain decreasing over time, if the patient feels the pain increasing continuously, that
is a clear sign of infection (Craft & Gordon, 2015). As discussed in the case the patient has
used her handkerchief to stop the bleeding from the wound. This might be the reason of
causing infection in the wound. The redness near the wound appears as the body tries to heal
the wound with the natural inflammatory process. It generally reduces with time, if not then it
also can be a sign of infection. Swelling of the wound is natural like redness which occurs at
the initial stages of the process of wound healing. Sometimes it takes more time to reduce or
increase with time this happens due to the microbial infection (Marieb & Hoehn, 2016). It is
normal to feel the skin somewhat warmer near the wound. When the skin near the wound
does not reduce its warm feel, this is because the immune system of the body fights back with
the microbial infection (Bullock & Manias, 2017). The heat is generated by the secretion of
vasoactive chemicals raised the blood flow the affected area and body's defense mechanism
generates more heat as it sends lymphocytes to produce more antibodies to kill the pathogen,