Wound Care Essentials: Practice PrinciplesCreated by a team of interdisciplinary professionals, Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, 2e, is a comprehensive yet concise handbook which discusses all aspects of wound care from quality of life issues to legal and regulatory aspects to skin integrity. It describes wound healing, wound assessment, and treatment options available for all wounds from the simple to the complex, including sickle cell wounds. This essential resource stresses the importance of nutrition and pain management. The reader will understand the most important aspects of caring for pressure ulcers, vascular ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, as well as the unusual wounds that result from malignant ulcers, vasculitis, pyoderma gangrenosum, and calciphylaxis. The wound care needs of special population groups such as intensive care unit patients, spinal cord injury patients, and HIV-AIDS patients are identified and treatment options provided. |
Contents
Regulation and wound care | 18 |
Legal aspects of wound care | 30 |
30 | 53 |
An essential organ | 62 |
7 | 79 |
10 | 138 |
11 | 183 |
Color illustrations following page | 242 |
15 | 294 |
16 | 323 |
17 | 339 |
18 | 369 |
19 | 387 |
20 | 398 |
21 | 415 |
Where we were where we are where were going | 462 |
Common terms and phrases
acute Advances in Skin Antimicrobial arterial Ayello bacterial blood capillary cause cers chronic wounds clinicians collagen compression debridement decreased dermis devices Diabetic Foot diabetic foot ulcers documentation drainage dressing changes edema effective eschar evaluation exudate fibroblasts flap fluid foam gauze granulation tissue growth factors guidelines heel Hydrocolloid increased interventions Journal of Wound leg ulcers lesions lymph lymphatic lymphedema Medicare ment moist wound moisture muscle necrotic tissue necrotizing fasciitis neuropathy NPUAP Nursing nutritional occur opioids oxygen pain Palliative patients PRACTICE POINT pres Pressure Sores pressure ul pressure ulcer risk pressure ulcers prevent protein pyoderma gangrenosum Research risk assessment risk factors shear sickle cell disease sickle cell ulcers skin tears spinal cord injury stage support surfaces sure ulcers Surgery surgical therapy tients tion trauma treated treatment tubes vascular vein venous ulcers wound assessment wound bed wound healing wound infection Wound Management