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Wound care essentials : practice principles / Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello.
LIBRA RD94 .B374 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baranoski, Sharon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizens Association for Racial Equality.
- Wounds and injuries--Patients--Care--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Wounds and injuries.
- Wounds and injuries--Nursing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Wound healing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Wound healing.
- Wounds and Injuries--therapy.
- Skin Ulcer--therapy.
- Wound Healing.
- Wounds and injuries--Nursing.
- Wounds and injuries--Patients.
- Medical Subjects:
- Wounds and Injuries--therapy.
- Skin Ulcer--therapy.
- Wound Healing.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 415 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2004]
- Summary:
- This comprehensive yet concise wound care handbook covers all aspects of wound care: wound healing, wound assessment, and treatment options for all types of wounds. More than 100 illustrations, checklists, tables, recurring icons, and flowcharts provide easy access to essential information, and a 16-page full-color insert illustrates the healing process and types of wounds.
- Contents:
- Quality of life and ethical issues
- Legal aspects of wound care
- Regulation and wound care
- Skin : an essential organ
- Acute and chronic wound healing
- Wound assessment
- Wound bioburden
- Wound debridement
- Wound treatment options
- Nutrition and wound care
- Seating, positioning, and support surfaces
- Pain management and wounds
- Pressure ulcers
- Vascular ulcers
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Sickle cell ulcers
- Wounds in special populations
- Complex wounds
- Atypical wounds
- Wound care : where we were, where we are, where we're going.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1582552746
- OCLC:
- 52423994
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