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Wound care : a collaborative practice manual for health professionals /

Title:
Wound care : a collaborative practice manual for health professionals /
Format:
Book
Institution:
MCPHS Worcester
Contents:
The wound care process -- Skin and soft tissue anatomy and wound healing physiology -- Assessment of the patient, skin, and wound -- Wound measurements and prediction of healing -- Tools to measure wound healing -- Vascular evaluation -- Assessment and treatment of nutrition -- Management of acute surgical wounds -- Pressure ulcers : pathophysiology, detection, and prevention -- Management of pressure by therapeutic positioning -- Management and diagnosis of vascular ulcers -- Management of the neuropathic foot -- Management of common foot problems -- Management of malignant cutaneous wounds and fistulas -- Management of burn injuries -- Management of scar -- Management of necrotic and nonviable tissue -- Management of exudate, biofilms, and infection -- Management of edema -- Management of the wound environment with dressings and topical agents -- Management of the wound environment with advanced therapies -- Management of wound pain -- Electrical stimulation for wound healing -- Radio frequency and electromagnetic energy -- Phototherapeutic applications for wound management -- Therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound -- Hydrotherapy -- Pulsatile lavage with suction -- Management of the wound environment with negative pressure wound therapy -- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy : management of the hypoxic wound.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
MCPHS Circulation - Worcester Campus
RD93 .W683 2012 – Available