Textbook of Chronic Wound Care: An Evidence-Based Approach for Diagnosis and Treatment
Brand: Best Publishing Company
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Medicine & Health Sciences



Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.69 x 11 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1947239074
Publisher: Best Publishing Company
Print length: 804 pages
Publication date: April 12, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1947239074
Edition: First
subtitle: First Edition
author: Jayesh B. Shah MD Paul J. Sheffield PhD Caroline E. Fife MD
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Dr. Jayesh B. Shah is President of South Texas Wound Associates, PA, San Antonio, Texas, where he has provided clinical wound care services in San Antonio and the surrounding communities for the past 17 years. He is also President of TIMEO2 Healing Concepts, LLC, in San Antonio, Texas, through which he provides consulting and education services in wound care and hyperbaric medicine both nationally and internationally. His degrees include MBBS from M. S. University, India, and MD in Internal Medicine from St. Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York. He is board certified in internal medicine, board certifi ed in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, certified in wound management, and certified in hyperbaric medicine. He is the past chair of American College of Clinical Wound Specialists, past president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, past chair of American Medical Association, International Medical Graduates Section, 2016 President of the Bexar County Medical Society, and 2017 President of American College of Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Paul J. Sheffield is President, International ATMO, Inc. of San Antonio, Texas, which provides wound care and hyperbaric medicine management, consulting, and education services. Dr. Sheffield began his career as a US Air Force aerospace physiologist, with primary responsibilities in aircrew training, research, and hyperbaric medicine. He was on the original team that established the USAF Hyperbaric Center at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas in 1974 where he was one of the originators of the use of tissue oximetry for wound assessment and patient selection for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. He completed his Air Force career as Chief of Aerospace Physiology at the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General in Washington, DC and retired in the grade of colonel aft er 30 years of military service. He joined International ATMO as Director of Research and Education and eventually became president in 2000. For over 50 years, Dr. Sheffield has been educating physicians, nurses, and technologists in aerospace physiology, undersea and hyperbaric medicine, and wound care. He authored over 145 publications, including 12 book chapters and edited several books, including Proceedings of the XIV International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine (Best Publishing Company), first and second editions of Wound Care Practice (Best Publishing Company), and first and second editions of Wound Care Certification Study Guide (Best Publishing Company). Dr. Caroline E. Fife completed a family medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two-year fellowship in undersea and hyperbaric medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and the Lymphedema Center. She is now a professor of geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the medical director of the CHI St. Luke s Wound Care Clinic in The Woodlands, Texas. She is also the chief medical officer of Intellicure, Inc., a health information technology company, and the executive director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a nonprofit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry.