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NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Wound Care Dressing Selection - Peripheral Vascular Disease

NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Kyle Rice

Health & Fitness

4.9631 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Jason is a patient with peripheral vascular disease who presents with a lower leg wound containing dry, adherent slough and minimal exudate. The wound bed appears desiccated, and the surrounding skin is fragile but intact. Which of the following interventions is MOST appropriate?

A) Transparent film

B) Hydrocolloid

C) Impregnated gauze

D) Amorphous hydrogel

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0:00.0

I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide.

0:08.0

It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE.

0:15.0

Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn. And you'll see the life

0:22.2

I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to

0:27.6

change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple,

0:34.2

actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions.

0:40.1

All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream.

0:45.3

So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life

0:50.7

you love, you're in the right place.

0:53.0

Enjoy the show.

0:55.1

For this week's clinical file, we have Jason and Jason is a patient with peripheral vascular

1:00.3

vascular disease who presents with a lower leg wound containing dry adherent sloth and

1:07.0

minimal exudate. The wound appears desiccated and the surrounding skin is fragile but intact.

1:14.9

Which of the following interventions is most appropriate?

1:18.2

So we have A, transparent film dressing, B is hydrocholoid dressing, C is impregnated

1:26.1

gauze dressing, and D is amorphous hydrogel dressing.

1:31.9

All right.

1:32.6

Let's go to top of this question.

1:34.0

It's a good one.

1:35.4

It's tapping into the integumentary system.

1:38.3

This is going to be the intervention aspect of the integumentary system where you have to know what dressings should be

1:47.5

used with the type of wound presented here. All right. So we're going to break all of this down.

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