Cath Lab Digest

  Use an otoscope to help visualize the wound bed. The device, commonly available in a wall-mounted unit in most offices, will magnify the wound bed. Pocket otoscopes are also available and are useful to evaluate wounds in the acute care, home health, or long-term care settings where lighting maybe inadequate. Having disposable tips of various sizes assists the clinician in assessing the base of conical-shaped wounds or areas that are healing into “anatomical dimple.”

Catherine Milne, APRN, MSN, CS
Plymouth, CT