Product Description
For courses in Wound Healing/Care.
This comprehensive text concisely presents students and clinicians with relevant information on the management of patients with open wounds, and addresses wounds not usually found in other texts—wounds due to burns, lymphedema, surgery, bites, radiation, and other types of trauma. Its clinically useful format emphasizes material that can be directly applied to the real world of patient care, and focuses on the patient rather than the wound. Also stressed throughout the book: 1) an interdisciplinary approach to wound management; 2) education of patients, caregivers, and healthcare team members; and 3) ways to reduce the risk of wound recurrence.
From the Back Cover
Wound Management is a comprehensive resource that covers the broad spectrum of managing patients with open wounds. Appropriate for both practicing clinicians and students, this resource takes a holistic approach to treatment, with an emphasis on the patient -- not the wound. It begins by covering anatomy and adverse effects, then provides an overview of examination, intervention, and details specific wound types.
Features:
- FREE CD-ROM includes full-color images
- Chapter-beginning key terms and chapter objectives highlight chapter content
- Numerous tables, figures and photographs reinforce concepts
- Checkpoint questions throughout each chapter reinforce comprehension
- Chapter-ending review questions test understanding
- Case studies turn concepts into real-world situations