CWCA Practice Test 14

Case: long-term care

An 84-year-old woman with heart failure bumped her left shin on a wheelchair footrest. She has a 4 × 3 cm skin tear on the anterior lower leg. The pale skin flap is viable and can cover about 60% of the wound bed; the rest of the flap is missing. There is light bleeding, which stops with gentle pressure.

Both lower legs have 2+ pitting edema, which the provider attributes to her heart failure. She takes long-term oral prednisone.