Summary
  About the editors
  About the contributors
  Brief table of contents
  Full table of contents
  Wound care product appendix
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    Wound Management for the Advanced Practitioner

Edited by Terry Swanson, Margo Asimus, and Bill McGuiness

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 investigations, assessment and management of non-viable tissue, infected wounds, dressings and technology, pharmacological therapy, and acute wounds – are then elucidated. Optimal management of commonly-encountered wounds (venous leg ulceration, arterial and mixed arterial-venous ulceration, inflammatory ulcers, pressure injury, and the high-risk foot) and unusual wounds is described. The path to professionalisation of wound management in Australia is charted. The book ends with a list of wound care products (types, properties, uses, distributor-contact details).

The editors of and specialist contributors to this text have aimed to build on the foundations provided by the numerous basic, introductory-level textbooks in the field to provide an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date textbook for wound managers who wish to further develop their knowledge and skills.

 

Bibliographic details:

Bibliographic details:
Paperback published, September, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-9872905-3-3. $A110.00 rrp.
245 x 170mm. 592 pages.
Includes 61 colour plates and 46 b/w plates, references, and index.

E-pub to be published, November, 2014, ISBN: 978-0-9925181-3-4. $A95.00 rrp.  

E-pdf to be published, November, 2014, ISBN: 978-0-9925181-3-4. $A95.00 rrp.

 

 
     
 
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