| Description |
xv, 415 pages, 16 pages of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Wound care overview -- Quality of life and ethical issues -- Legal aspects of wound care -- Regulation and wound care -- Skin : an essential organ -- Acute and chronic wound healing -- Wound assessment -- Assessing and managing wound bioburden -- Wound debridement -- Wound treatment options -- Nutrition and wound care -- Seating, positioning, and support surfaces -- Assessing and managing wound care pain -- Wound diagnosis and classifications -- Pressure ulcers -- Vascular ulcers -- Diabetic foot ulcers -- Sickle cell ulcers -- Special populations -- Complex acute wounds -- Atypical wounds -- Wound care : where we were, where we are, where we're going |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Skin Ulcer -- Treatment
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Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Care -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Wounds and injuries -- Nursing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Wound healing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Skin Ulcer -- therapy.
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Wound Healing.
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Wounds and Injuries -- therapy.
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Wounds and Injuries -- therapy.
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Skin Ulcer -- therapy.
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Wound Healing.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Ayello, Elizabeth A.
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| LC no. |
2003013185 |
| ISBN |
1582552746 alkaline paper |
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