Wound care essentials
Subtitle: practice principles
By: Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello.
Contributors: Ayello, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Care -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Wounds and injuries -- Nursing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Wound healing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Wounds and Injuries -- therapy.; Skin Ulcer -- therapy.; Wound Healing.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wound care overview; title: Quality of life and ethical issues; title: Legal aspects of wound care; title: Regulation and wound care; title: Skin : an essential organ; title: Acute and chronic wound healing; title: Wound assessment; title: Assessing and managing wound bioburden; title: Wound debridement; title: Wound treatment options; title: Nutrition and wound care; title: Seating, positioning, and support surfaces; title: Assessing and managing wound care pain; title: Wound diagnosis and classifications; title: Pressure ulcers; title: Vascular ulcers; title: Diabetic foot ulcers; title: Sickle cell ulcers; title: Special populations; title: Complex acute wounds; title: Atypical wounds; title: Wound care : where we were, where we are, where we're going.