The nurse is in the process of irrigating the wound for a patient who has a large pressure ulcer on his buttock. How should the nurse proceed?
a. Use irrigation pressures of less than 4 psi.
b. Cleanse in a direction from most contaminated to least contaminated.
c. Irrigate so that the solution flows from least contaminated to most contaminated.
d. Irrigate with clean irrigation solution only.
C
When one is irrigating, all the solution flows from the least contaminated to the most contaminated area. The pressure needed to irrigate wounds is between 4 and 15 psi. Irrigating solutions are sterile.
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