Completely updated for its Sixth Edition, Clinical Guide: Skin and Wound Care is the only all-in-one portable guide to skin and wound care, with new chapters on skin care and incontinence, important new information on regulations, and more than 650 dressings, drugs, and other products for every type of wound.

Part I provides detailed guidelines on wound care and prevention and related professional and legal issues.

Part II features profiles and photographs of over 300 wound care products.

Part III contains charts of over 300 additional products.

Appendices include assessment tools and multiple treatment algorithms. A manufacturer resource guide with Website listings is included.

Contents

Part One: Wound Care Prevention and Intervention

1. Skin Care and Wound Prevention Strategies
2. Assessing and Documenting Chronic Wounds
3. Types of Chronic Wounds
4. Laboratory Values in Chronic Wound Management
5. Developing a Skin and Wound Care Formulary
6. Tissue Load Management
7. Wound Care and the Regulatory Process

Part Two: Skin and Wound Care Products

Skin Care Products

• Antifungals and Antimicrobials
• Liquid Skin Protectants
• Moisture Barriere
• Skin Cleansers
• Therapeutic Moisturizers

Wound Care Products

• Dressings and Devices
• Drugs

Part Three: Additional Dressings and Products

• Abdominal Dressing Holders/Binders
• Compression Bandage Systems
• Conforming Bandages
• Elastic Bandage Rolls
• Gauze, Impregnated with Other than Water, Normal Saline or Hydrogel Without Adhesive Border
• Gauze, Impregnated with Water or Normal Saline, Without Adhesive Border
• Gauze, Nonimpregnated With Adhesive Border
• Gauze, Nonimpregnated Without Adhesive Border
• Tapes
• Wound Cleansers

Appendices
Index

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