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.
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.