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Medical Surgical
Clinical Guide to Skin andWound Care, Seventh Edition
Cathy Thomas Hess, RN, BSN, CWOCN
978-1-60913-679-6 • June 2012 • Spiralbound • 5” x 8” • 624 pp. • 300 Illus.
Accelerate your skin and wound care with the
Clinical Guide to Skin
andWoundCare, Seventh Edition
.
This compact and sensibly organized guide is vital to providing optimal
care. In this edition, there are updated advice on skin care products
helps you make the right choices, current documentation regulations,
so that you can properly illustrate wound healing, new chapters on
lymphedema and best practices and profiles of more than 300 products,
in A to Z organization for easy identification, as well as benchmark
outcomes that help you to take care of the next level, and more.
Featuring important new information on documentation regulations,
including helpful checklists, and offering take-away highlights in every
chapter, this useful resource also provides new content on lymphedema
management guidelines, negative pressure wound therapy, and
capturing data using today’s media capabilities.
ClinicalGuide to Skin andWoundCare, Seventh Edition
, also includes
a full-color wound photo section, wound checklists, and much more.
Features
•
NEW!
Important new content on documentation regulations
•
NEW!
Chapter on lymphedema featuring best practices.
•
NEW!
Checklists chapter.
• Profiles of more than 300 products in alphabetical organization.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Part 1:
Mastering Skin and Wound
Care
Ch. 1: Skin Care and Wound Prevention
Strategies
Ch. 2: Assessing Documenting Chronic
Wounds
Ch. 3: Understanding and Managing
Chronic Wounds
Ch. 4: Best Practices for Managing the Effects
of Lymphedema
Ch. 5: Laboratory values in chronic wound
management
Ch. 6: Harnessing technology: EMR
checklists and operational compliance
Part 2:
Skin and Wound Care Products
Ch.7: Skin Care Products
Ch. 8: Dressings and Devices
Ch. 9: Alginates
Ch. 10: Antimicrobials
Ch. 11: Collagens
Ch. 12: Composites
Ch. 13: Contact Layers
Ch. 14: Foams
Ch. 15: Hydrocolloids
Ch. 16: Hydrogels
Ch. 17: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Ch. 18: Specialty Absorptive
Ch. 19: Surgical Supplies, Miscellaneous
Ch. 20: Transparent Films
Ch. 21: Wound Fillers
Ch. 22: Other Products
Ch. 23: Drugs
Part 3:
Additional Dressings and
Products
Appendices
Manufacturer resource guide
Selected references
Index