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Title:
Wound care essentials : practice principles / Sharon Baranoski, MSN, RN, CWCN, APN-CCRN, MAPWCA, FAAN, Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWON, MAPWCA, FAAN.
Author:
Baranoski, Sharon, editor.

Ayello, Elizabeth A., editor.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2016]
Call Number:
RD94 .B374 2016
Edition:
Fourth edition.
ISBN:
9781469889139
Physical Description:
xiv, 593 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Quality of life and chronic wound care -- Reimbursement regulations impacting wound care -- Legal aspects of wound care -- Skin: an essential organ -- Acute and chronic wound healing -- Wound assessment -- Bioburden infection -- Wound debridement -- Wound treatment options -- Nutrition and wound care -- Pressure redistribution: seating, positioning, and support surfaces -- Pain management and wounds -- Pressure ulcers -- Venous disease and lymphedema management -- Arterial ulcers -- Diabetic foot ulcers -- Sickle cell ulcers -- Surgical reconstruction of wounds -- Tube, drain, and fistula management -- Atypical wounds -- Wounds in special populations -- Pressure ulcers in neonatal and pediatric populations -- Palliative wound care -- Wound gallery.
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