| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 3, 2014). |
| Language |
English. |
| Summary |
Increasingly, wound management is recognised as a specialised area of practice. Advances in wound-care products, surgical interventions, and social-support options create an often bewildering array of knowledge for healthcare practitioners. This textbook opens with a focus on the core elements of effective wound management: an understanding of how wounds heal and what inhibits wound healing, rigorous assessment, use of outcome measures, evidence-based approaches to practice, and an understanding of how clinical research is done. Key aspects of wound-bed preparation and management - diagnostic i. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- List of colour plates -- Part 1 Core elements of effective wound management -- Chapter 1 The science of wound healing -- Chapter 2 Factors that inhibit wound healing -- Chapter 3 Assessment -- Chapter 4 Outcome measures -- Appendix 4.1 Healable wound cost effectiveness calculation template -- Chapter 5 Evidence-based practice -- Chapter 6 Undertaking research -- Part 2 Wound bed preparation and management -- Chapter 7 Diagnostic investigations -- Chapter 8 Assessment and management of non-viable tissue -- Appendix 8.1 Debridement modality matrix -- Chapter 9 Infected wounds -- Chapter 10 Modern dressings and technologies -- Chapter 11 Pharmacology in wound management -- Chapter 12 Acute wounds -- Part 3 Types of wounds -- Chapter 13 Venous leg ulceration -- Chapter 14 Arterial and mixed arterial-venous ulceration -- Chapter 15 Inflammatory ulcers -- Chapter 16 Unusual wounds -- Chapter 17 Pressure injury -- Chapter 18 The high-risk foot -- Part 4 The professionalisation of wound managementin Australia -- Chapter 19 Evolution of wound management in Australia -- Chapter 20 Wound management education in Australia -- Index. |
| Subject |
Wounds and injuries -- Treatment.
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Wounds and Injuries -- nursing |
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Wounds and Injuries -- physiopathology |
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Lésions et blessures -- Traitement.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Wounds and injuries -- Treatment
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| Added Author |
Swanson, Terry, editor.
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Asimus, Margo, editor.
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McGuiness, Bill, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780992518134 |
| ISBN |
9780992518134 (electronic bk.) |
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099251813X (electronic bk.) |
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9780987290533 |
| Standard No. |
DEBBG BV042794519 |
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DEBSZ 48128737X |
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