Skin & wound care
By: Cathy Thomas Hess.
Contributors: Hess, Cathy Thomas, 1961- .
Edition: 6th ed.
Series: Clinical guide
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9781582556888
Subjects: Wounds and injuries -- Nursing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Wound healing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Wounds and Injuries -- nursing -- Handbooks; Bandages -- Handbooks; Skin Care -- methods -- Handbooks; Skin Ulcer -- nursing -- Handbooks; Wound Healing -- Handbooks
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Handbooks.
Other titles: Skin and wound care
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Wound care / Cathy Thomas Hess. 5th ed. c2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Skin care and wound prevention strategies; title: Assessing and documenting chronic wounds; title: Types of chronic wounds; title: Laboratory values in chronic wound management; title: Developing a skin and wound care formulary; title: Tissue load management; title: Wound care and the regulatory process; title: Skin care products; title: Skin cleansers; title: Liquid skin protectants; title: Moisture barriers; title: Antifungals and antimicrobials; title: Therapeutic moisturizers; title: Wound care products: dressings, devices, and drugs; title: Dressings and devices; title: Alginates; title: Antimicrobials; title: Collagens; title: Composites; title: Contact layers; title: Foams; title: Hydrocolloids; title: Hydrogels; title: Specialty absorptives; title: Surgical supplies, miscellaneous; title: Transparent films; title: Wound fillers; title: Other products; title: Drugs; title: Products; title: Additional dressings and products; title: Abdominal dressing holders and binders; title: Compression bandage systems; title: Conforming bandages; title: Elastic bandage rolls; title: Gauze, impregnated with other than water, normal saline or hydrogel without adhesive border; title: Gauze, impregnated with water or normal saline, without adhesive border; title: Gauze, nonimpregnated with adhesive border; title: Gauze, nonimpregnated without adhesive border; title: Tapes; title: Wound cleansers; title: Wound pouches.