Topical Agents
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Carlos is being treated for a second-degree burn that he received at work.
The physical therapist is challenged with determining the proper topical agent to use on the patient's burn.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files, two mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:07.0 | week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT clinical files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT |
| 0:12.2 | prep coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching Program. |
| 0:18.4 | And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific |
| 0:22.4 | question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to |
| 0:27.7 | get that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient Carlos. And Carlos |
| 0:33.2 | presents with a second degree burn across his right forearm that he received at work. |
| 0:39.6 | The patient tested positive for gram-negative bacterial growth and has necrotic tissue |
| 0:45.8 | dispersed throughout the wound bed. |
| 0:48.2 | Which of the following topical agents is the most recommended? |
| 0:52.2 | So we have a, hydrogen peroxide solution, B, silvidine, C, sulfamilon, |
| 1:00.7 | and D is lydicane. All right. So let's go up to the top here. For those of you all joining me |
| 1:06.8 | right now, I'm telling you these topical agents are always tough it's always giving me a problem has |
| 1:12.1 | it given you a problem because if it has I bet you I know why because there's just like so many of them |
| 1:17.8 | you probably haven't really used much of them yourself you haven't really seen them done and then the other |
| 1:22.1 | thing is this is so hard to classify these things it's like what do they really do what do they |
| 1:26.8 | really address some Some are for |
| 1:29.0 | infection. Some are for necrosis. Like, ah, it's just like a bunch of different stuff, right? |
| 1:33.4 | Well, let's go ahead through this question and let me help you to dominate some of these. So it says |
| 1:37.5 | Carlos presents with a second degree burn across his right forearm that he received at work. |
| 1:44.0 | So I'll slow up there real quick. It says second degree burn across his right forearm that he received at work. So I'll slow up there real quick. |
| 1:45.9 | It says second degree burn first. |
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