Wound care essentials

Wound care essentials: practice principles

by Ayello, Elizabeth A. Baranoski, Sharon

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"A crucial guide for all skin and wound care professionals, this essential resource provides authoritative science and practical instruction on wound care best practices. This must-have guide offers the latest, skin and wound care research-backed insights on prevention and management strategies. Three new chapters - Skin, Challenging Skin Conditions and Lymphedema. Skin and wound care concepts - every chapter has been updated with the most current international guidelines especially for pressur…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Wound care essentials : practice principles / clinical editors, Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello.

Summary

"A crucial guide for all skin and wound care professionals, this essential resource provides authoritative science and practical instruction on wound care best practices. This must-have guide offers the latest, skin and wound care research-backed insights on prevention and management strategies. Three new chapters - Skin, Challenging Skin Conditions and Lymphedema. Skin and wound care concepts - every chapter has been updated with the most current international guidelines especially for pressure injuries and skin tears." -- Publisher.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2020
  • Edition:Fifth edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Wolters Kluwer
  • Place of Publication:Philadelphia
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2020

Notes

Previous edition: Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2016.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 708 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781975128883, 1975128885
  • oclc:on1180050081
  • LC Classification:RD94
  • Dewey Decimal:617.1

Table of Contents

Quality of life and ethical issues -- Reimbursement regulations impacting wound care -- Legal aspects of wound care -- Skin: an essential organ -- Acute and chronic wound healing -- Wound assessment -- Wound bioburden and infection -- Wound debridement -- Wound treatment options -- Nutrition and wound care -- Pressure distribution: seating, positioning, and support surfaces -- Pain management and wounds -- Skin: challenging conditions -- Pressure injuries -- Venous disease and ulcers -- Lymphedema: complete decongestive therapy -- Arterial ulcers -- Diabetic foot ulcers -- Sickle cell ulcers -- Surgical wounds and surgical reconstruction -- Tube, drain, and fistula management -- Atypical wounds -- Spinal cord injury population -- Adiposity and the bariatric patient -- Pressure injuries in neonatal and pediatric populations -- Palliative skin and wound care -- Wound gallery.

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