Comments on: OASIS-C Common Wound Terms http://blogs.beaconhealth.org/oasis-c/2010/01/oasis-c-common-wound-terms/ Making OASIS-C implementation easy with current updates, guidance and support from home health experts. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Sue http://blogs.beaconhealth.org/oasis-c/2010/01/oasis-c-common-wound-terms/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Sue Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:10:13 +0000 http://blogs.beaconhealth.org/oasis-c/?p=1279#comment-150 Hi, Thank you for these definitions, but in some ways, I think they create more questions than they answer. For example, a newly epithelialized wound is not just "covered." It is covered with epithelium. In a fully granulating wound, what does 100% granulation mean? Does that mean the whole bottom of a deep wound is 100% covered with granulation? No it doesn't. It means the wound is full of granulation tissue to the skin level. In early/partial granulation, what does "some" slough/eschare mean? It is better defined as less than 25% slough/eschar. And, in non-healing wounds, the slough/eschar is greater than 25%. And, by the way, all unhealed stage II pressure ulcers are non-healing, because they don't granulate, and if they are newly epithelialized, they are healed and no longer counted. Thanks, Sue Hull, RN, MSN, CWOCN Hi,
Thank you for these definitions, but in some ways, I think they create more questions than they answer.

For example, a newly epithelialized wound is not just “covered.” It is covered with epithelium.

In a fully granulating wound, what does 100% granulation mean? Does that mean the whole bottom of a deep wound is 100% covered with granulation? No it doesn’t. It means the wound is full of granulation tissue to the skin level.

In early/partial granulation, what does “some” slough/eschare mean? It is better defined as less than 25% slough/eschar.

And, in non-healing wounds, the slough/eschar is greater than 25%. And, by the way, all unhealed stage II pressure ulcers are non-healing, because they don’t granulate, and if they are newly epithelialized, they are healed and no longer counted.

Thanks,
Sue Hull, RN, MSN, CWOCN

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