Wound care essentials :

Baranoski, Sharon.

Wound care essentials : practice principles / Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello. - 2nd ed. - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008. - xiv, 479 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Pressure ulcers -- Venous ulcers , lymphedema, and compression therapy -- Arterial ulcers -- Diabetic foot ulcers -- Sickle cell ulcers -- Surgical wounds, tubes, and drains -- Atypical wounds -- Wounds in special populations -- Palliative wound care -- Wound care: where we were, where we are, where we're going.

9781582554693 (alk. paper) 1582554692 (alk. paper)

2007018677

101306252 DNLM


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.

RD94 / .B374 2008

617.1

2007 J-669 WO 700 / B225w 2008