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Wound care essentials : practice principles / [edited by] Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (613 p.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is an essential clinical reference to guideand elevate practice in the specialty of wound care. Created by an interdisciplinary team of professionals, the text appeals to nurses, physical therapists, physicians, podiatrists,long-term careprofessionals, and others shouldering the responsibility of finding effective solutions in treating both commonand atypical wound problems. The book focuses on assessment, treatment, and care and covers topics that other text-references do not, including sickle cell wounds and an entire chapter devoted to special populations. It is the most clinical of our various wound care books.
- Contents:
- Wound care concepts
- Quality of life and ethical issues
- Regulation and 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 redistribution: seating, positioning, and support surfaces
- Pain management and wounds
- Wound classifications and management strategies
- Pressure ulcers
- Venous disease and lymphedema management
- Arterial ulcers
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Sickle cell ulcers
- Surgical reconstruction of wounds
- Tube, drain, and fistula management
- Atypical wounds
- Wounds in special populations
- Pressure ulcers in neonatal and pediatric populations
- Palliative wound care
- Wound care perspectives: present and future.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Rev. edition of: Wound care essentials / Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello. 2nd edition c2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4511-3004-X
- 1-4698-8062-8
- OCLC:
- 923522334
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