Wound care essentials
Subtitle: practice principles
By: Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello.
Contributors: Ayello, Elizabeth A.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781582554693
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; Wound Healing
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Quality of life and ethical issues; title: Regulation and wound care; title: Legal aspects of wound care; title: Skin: an essential organ; title: Acute and chronic wound healing; title: Wound assessment; title: Wound bioburden; title: Wound debridement; title: Wound treatment options; title: Nutrition and wound care; title: Pressure redistribution: seating, positioning, and support surfaces; title: Pain management and wounds; title: Pressure ulcers; title: Venous ulcers , lymphedema, and compression therapy; title: Arterial ulcers; title: Diabetic foot ulcers; title: Sickle cell ulcers; title: Surgical wounds, tubes, and drains; title: Atypical wounds; title: Wounds in special populations; title: Palliative wound care; title: Wound care: where we were, where we are, where we're going.