Chronic wound care
Subtitle: a clinical source book for healthcare professionals
By: co-edited by Diane L. Krasner, George T. Rodeheaver, R. Gary Sibbald.
Contributors: Krasner, Diane.; Rodeheaver, George T.; Sibbald, R. Gary
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: HMP Communications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malvern, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780970651488
Subjects: Wounds and Injuries -- therapy.; Pressure Ulcer; Ulcer; Wound healing.; Wounds and injuries -- Treatment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Our 20-year journey in interprofessional wound caring (foreword); value: Interprofessional wound caring (preface); value: Interprofessional wound caring (chapter); value: Chronic wound healing and chronic wound management; value: The language of wounds; value: Effective adult education principles to improve outcomes in patients with chronic wounds; value: Teaching wound care to patients, families, and healthcare providers; value: Developing educational programs: a blueprint for success; value: Controlled clinical trials versus case studies: why wound care professionals need to know the difference; value: Bench science advances for chronic wound care; value: Observations and suggestions for authors of wound healing manuscripts: an editor's view; value: Health-related quality of life; value: Helping patients out of the SWAMP: skin and wound assessment and management of pain; value: Is bed rest an effective treatment modality for pressure ulcers?; value: Wound assessment and documentation; value: Nutritional assessment and intervention in the adult with a chronic wound; value: Wound care epidemiology; value: Running an outpatient wound clinic; value: Wound care in home care; value: Cost effectiveness in wound care; value: Regulatory issues and reimbursement challenges; value: Best practice guidelines, algorithms, and standards: tools to make evidence-based practice available and user friendly; value: Mentoring: the ultimate professional relationship; value: Opportunities for wound care specialists; value: Moist wound healing: optimizing the wound environment; value: Wound environment: implications from research studies for healing and infection; value: Cofactors in impaired wound healing; value: Dermatological aspects of wound care - The development of wound management products; value: Dressing decisions; value: Wound product selection challenges: developing strategies for your practice setting; value: Negative pressure wound therapy; value: Nontraditional or alternative topical therapies for wound care; value: Infections in chronic wounds; value: Infection control perspectives on wound care; value: Wound cleansing, wound irrigation, wound disinfection; value: Wound debridement; value: Growth factors and erythropoietin in wound healing; value: Surgical repair in advanced wound caring; value: Postoperative care of skin grafts, donor sites, and musculocutaneous flaps - The Physical therapist's role in wound management; value: The Role of the podiatric physician in wound care; value: The Role of the hyperbaric medicine team in chronic wound care; value: Therapeutic modalities in the treatment of chronic recalcitrant wounds; value: Technologies for assessment of wound microcirculation; value: Venous leg ulcers; value: Arterial ulcers: assessment, classification, and management; value: Uncommon ulcers; value: Measurement: lower leg ulcer vascular and wound assessment; value: Compression therapies; value: Understanding peripheral edema and managing the edematous lower legs; value: - Skin substitutes; value: Surgical measurement of vascular insufficiency of the lower extremity; value: Oxygen, oxygen-free radicals, and reperfusion injury; value: Wounds in people with diabetes: assessment, classification, and management; value: The Role of the healthcare team in the prevention and management of diabetic foot ulcers; value: Assessment of the diabetic foot; value: Offloading foot wounds in people with diabetes; value: The Team approach to treating ulcers in people with diabetes; value: Pressure ulcers: assessment, classification, and management; value: Assessment of wound appearance of chronic pressure ulcers; value: Risk assessment in pressure ulcer prevention; value: Moisture control, urinary and fecal incontinence, and perineal skin management; value: Support surfaces: tissue integrity, terms, principles, and choice; value: The Role of technology in pressure ulcer prevention; value: Surgical measurement of pressure ulcers; value: Geriatric principles in the practice of chronic wound care; value: Chronic wounds in neonates and children; value: Skin and wound care for the bariatric patient; value: Management and care of clients with surgical wounds in the community; value: Altered parastomal skin and tissue integrity: thought, treatment, and teaching; value: Malignant wound management: a patient-centered approach; value: Skin care for the oncology patient; value: When a wound is not a wound: tubes, drains, fistulae, and draining wounds; value: Management of wound recalcitrance and deterioration; value: Interprofessional wound caring: a lifelong quest for PEACE.