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Wound Care

Wound Care

A practical guide for maintaining skin integrity

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Description
The second edition of Wound Care:: a practical guide for maintaining skin integrity offers students and nurses a highly practical approach to treating acute and chronic wounds.

The book applies the latest evidence and theory to the real world, helping you develop skills and knowledge to manage wounds effectively. Each chapter provides an overview of specific wound types, followed by case studies to help you build your clinical reasoning skills, and related multiple choice questions to test your knowledge.

Editors Kerrie Coleman and Glo Neilsen have worked with a skilled team of clinical experts to completely refresh and update this edition, incorporating latest developments, tips, strategies and wound care products.

New to this edition
  • Clinical scenarios include diverse presentations from a range of populations with varying skin tones
  • Emphasis on diversity and cultural preferences when delivering wound care
  • Three new chapters covering dermatology (adults and children), how to help people living with a wound, and wound care with budgetary constraints
  • Updated Evolve resources for students and instructors

Key Features
  • Up-to-date and contemporary advice for Australia and New Zealand – ideal for students and nurses
  • Packed full of evidence–based tips on wound care
  • Focus on clinical reasoning, critical thinking and person–centred care
  • Clearly presented information – concise and easy to navigate
  • Case studies include an assessment and management approach to assist in developing effective clinical application of wound care theory
  • Full colour photographs and illustrations to help you familiarise yourself with a variety of wound types
  • A nursing focus with a multidisciplinary approach to help enhance the ‘real–world’ experience of wound care
Instructor resources on Evolve::
  • Answers to Case Study questions
  • Image collection
Student and Instructor resources on Evolve::
  • Self-assessment quizzes
  • Quick reference list of local wound care products/dressings
Product Details
Elsevier
101465
9780729544450

Data sheet

Rok wydania
2024
Numer wydania
2
Oprawa
miękka foliowana
Liczba stron
196
Wymiary (mm)
190 x 235
  • Cover image
  • Title page
  • Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Reviewers
  •     List of Illustrations
  •     List of Tables
  • 1.  How to improve the wound healing process: Hints and tips
  •     Introduction
  •     Clinical
  •     Skin anatomy and physiology
  •     Barriers to healing
  •     Lifestyle factors
  •     Wound healing and assessment
  •     Treatment
  •     Healable vs non-healable wounds
  •     Primary goals of care
  •     Conclusion
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 1.1: Suture removal 10 days after knee joint replacement
  •     Case study 1.2: The importance of team care
  •     Case study 1.3: Pressure injury with chronic disease
  •     Hints and tips
  •     Online resources
  • 2.  Acute wounds and how best to manage them
  •     Introduction
  •     Clinical
  •     Types of acute wound
  •     Principles of acute wound management
  •     Traumatic wounds
  •     Major wounds
  •     Minor trauma
  •     Conclusion
  •     Surgical and perinatal wounds
  •     Key points
  •     General surgery
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 2.1: Acute wound
  •     Case study 2.2: Penetrating injury – gunshot wound
  •     Case study 2.3: Postnatal mother, day 2 post-LSCS birth – postnatal ward
  •     Conclusion
  • 3.  Cellulitis wounds
  •     Definition
  •     Clinical
  •     Causes
  •     Risks
  •     Sites
  •     Differential diagnosis
  •     Enhancing outcomes
  •     Complications
  •     Lower limb cellulitis (LLC)
  •     Cellulitis related to breast cancer treatment and nipple fissures
  •     Post-surgical cellulitis – a symptom or a cause?
  •     Management/treatment
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 3.1: Lower limb cellulitis
  •     Case study 3.2: Cellulitis of a mastectomy site
  •     Conclusion
  •     Online resources/suggested reading
  • 4.  Malignant wounds
  •     Clinical
  •     Introduction
  •     Incidence
  •     Aetiology and presentation
  •     Treatment modalities
  •     Common symptoms
  •     Treatment
  •     Wound management
  •     Conclusion
  •     Hints and tips
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 4.1: Recurrent bowel cancer
  •     Case study 4.2: Impact of cancer treatment on wound management planning
  •     Case study 4.3: Optimising wound dressings to promote quality of life for head and neck malignancies
  •     Online resources/suggested readings
  • 5.  Skin integrity issues
  •     Clinical
  •     Skin injuries
  •     Pressure injuries (PI)
  •     Incontinence associated dermatitis (IAD)
  •     Medical adhesive-related skin injuries (MARSI)
  •     Skin tears
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 5.1: Pressure injury – acute care patient
  •     Case study 5.2: Incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD)
  •     Case study 5.3: Medical adhesive-related skin injury
  •     Case study 5.4: Skin tear
  •     Conclusion
  •     Online resources?
  • 6.  Australian first nations people and tropical wounds
  •     Skin conditions and wounds in the tropics
  •     Clinical
  •     Tinea
  •     Melioidosis
  •     Scabies
  •     Impetigo
  •     Necrotising fasciitis
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 6.1: Skin condition
  •     Case study 6.2: Melioidosis
  •     Case study 6.3: Scabies
  •     Case study 6.4: Impetigo
  •     Case study 6.5: Necrotising fasciitis
  •     Hints and tips
  •     Conclusion
  •     Online resources/suggested reading
  • 7.  Individualising a wound management plan
  •     Clinical
  •     Understanding the fundamentals before the assessment begins
  •     Factors affecting wound healing
  •     Wound types and classifications/aetiology
  •     Undertaking the wound assessment
  •     Choosing the appropriate dressing
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 7.1: Jill Dean
  •     Case study 7.2: Kelly Joan
  •     Student challenge
  •     Online resources/suggested reading
  • 8.  Dermatology across the lifespan
  •     Clinical
  •     The anatomy of skin
  •     Adult skin
  •     Skin assessment
  •     Common skin conditions across the lifespan
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 8.1: Allergic contact dermatitis
  •     Case study 8.2: Bullous pemphigoid complicating leg ulcer healing
  •     Practical hints and tips
  •     Conclusion
  • 9.  Wound care on a budget
  •     Introduction
  •     Clinical
  •     Protect the wound from trauma
  •     Promote a clean wound base and control infection
  •     Maintain a moist environment
  •     Enhance systemic conditions
  •     Control peri-wound oedema/lymphoedema
  •     Case studies
  •     Case study 9.1: Venous leg ulceration
  •     Case study 9.2: Bilateral lateral malleolar wounds
  • Appendix:  How to individualise your wound management plan
  • Index
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