Wound management for the advanced practitioner / edited by Terry Swanson, Margo Asimus, and Bill McGuiness.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swanson, Terry, editor.

Asimus, Margo, editor.

McGuiness, Bill, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wounds and injuries--Treatment.

Wounds and injuries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 541 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne : IP Communications, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Increasingly, wound management is recognised as a specialised area of practice. Advances in wound-care products, surgical interventions, and social-support options create an often bewildering array of knowledge for healthcare practitioners.This textbook opens with a focus on the core elements of effective wound management: an understanding of how wounds heal and what inhibits wound healing, rigorous assessment, use of outcome measures, evidence-based approaches to practice, and an understanding of how clinical research is done. Key aspects of wound-bed preparation and management - diagnostic investigations, assessment and management of non-viable tissue, infected wounds, dressings and technology, pharmacological therapy, and acute wounds - are then elucidated. Optimal management of commonly-encountered wounds (venous leg ulceration, arterial and mixed arterial-venous ulceration, inflammatory ulcers, pressure injury, and the high-risk foot) and unusual wounds is described. The path to professionalisation of wound management in Australia is charted. The book ends with a list of wound care products (types, properties, uses, distributor-contact details).The editors of and specialist contributors to this text have aimed to build on the foundations provided by the numerous basic, introductory-level textbooks in the field to provide an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date textbook for wound managers who wish to further develop their knowledge and skills.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Dedication

About the editors

About the contributors

List of colour plates

Part 1 Core elements of effective wound management

Chapter 1 The science of wound healing

Chapter 2 Factors that inhibit wound healing

Chapter 3 Assessment

Chapter 4 Outcome measures

Appendix 4.1 Healable wound cost effectiveness calculation template

Chapter 5 Evidence-based practice

Chapter 6 Undertaking research

Part 2 Wound bed preparation and management

Chapter 7 Diagnostic investigations

Chapter 8 Assessment and management of non-viable tissue

Appendix 8.1 Debridement modality matrix

Chapter 9 Infected wounds

Chapter 10 Modern dressings and technologies

Chapter 11 Pharmacology in wound management

Chapter 12 Acute wounds

Part 3 Types of wounds

Chapter 13 Venous leg ulceration

Chapter 14 Arterial and mixed arterial-venous ulceration

Chapter 15 Inflammatory ulcers

Chapter 16 Unusual wounds

Chapter 17 Pressure injury

Chapter 18 The high-risk foot

Part 4 The professionalisation of wound managementin Australia

Chapter 19 Evolution of wound management in Australia

Chapter 20 Wound management education in Australia

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-9925181-3-X

OCLC:

1027203042