Practice Principles
Second edition
by Sharon Baranoski
Wound Care Essentials provides practical, comprehensive guidelines for assessment and management of both common and atypical wound problems and covers many topics not sufficiently addressed in other texts, such as sickle cell wounds, amputation, gene therapy, and the specific wound care needs of special populations.
Features include:
- more than 100 photographs and illustrations
- recurring icons such as Evidence-Based Practice and Practice Points
- case studies
- review questions
Contents
Wound care concepts
- Quality of life and ethical issues
- Regulation and wound care
- Legal aspects of wound care
- Skin: An essential organ
- Acute and chronic wound healing
- Wound assessment
- Wound bioburden
- Wound debridement
- Wound treatment options
- Nutrition and wound care
- Pressure redistribution: Seating, positioning, and support surfaces
- Pain management and wounds
Wound classifications and management strategies
- Pressure ulcers
- Vascular ulcers
- Arterial ulcers
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Sickle cell ulcers
- Surgical wounds, tubes, and drains
- Atypical wounds
- Wounds in special populations
- Palliative wou nd care
- Wound care: Where we were, where we are, where we're going
Index
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