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Clinical guide to skin & wound care / Cathy Thomas Hess.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hess, Cathy Thomas, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wounds and injuries--Nursing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Wounds and injuries.
- Wound healing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Wound healing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (617 p.)
- Edition:
- Seventh edition.
- Other Title:
- Skin & wound care
- Clinical guide to skin and wound care
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This useful resource will help both clinicians and institutions deliver wound care that's both appropriate for patient needs and cost-effective for the institution. Featuring important new information on documentation regulations, including helpful checklists, and offering take-away highlights in every chapter, this useful resource also provides new content on lymphedema management guidelines, negative pressure wound therapy, and capturing data using today's media capabilities. Part 1 covers the fundamentals of skin and wound care, including assessment, treatment, prevention, nutrition, and documentation. Part 2 offers profiles and photos of hundreds of skin and wound care products, all categorized and alphabetized for easy reference. The book also includes a full-color wound photo section, wound checklists, and much more.
- Contents:
- Skin care and wound prevention strategies
- Assessing documenting chronic wounds
- Understanding and managing chronic wounds
- Best practices for managing the effects of lymphedema
- Laboratory values in chronic wound management
- Harnessing technology : EMR checklists and operational compliance.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Rev. edition of Skin & wound care / Cathy Thomas Hess. 6th edition c2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-7050-9
- 1-4963-2795-0
- 1-4511-6475-0
- OCLC:
- 908511145
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