Wound Healing and Skin Integrity. Principles and Practice

Description

This comprehensive text integrates related aspects of wound management, skin integrity and dermatology into a convenient, one-stop resource. It explores the theories underpinning wound management and skin integrity by reviewing the supporting evidence and making practical recommendations for busy clinicians. Wound Healing and Skin Integrity discusses current and future trends in the management of wounds and maintenance of skin integrity in respect to international healthcare initiatives and summaries the principles of maintaining healthy skin to provide a practical guide that is accessible to clinicians regardless of professional background.

Wound Healing and Skin Integrity fulfils the inter-professional learning agenda and will be of interest to a wide range of clinicians including; doctors, wound management, dermatology and palliative care nurse specialists, community nurses, podiatrists, pharmacists and anyone responsible for managing patients with impaired skin integrity.

Key features:

• A practical, accessible, evidence-based manual on wound care and skin integrity
• Integrates related aspects of skin integrity, wound management and dermatology previously found in separate texts into one comprehensive resource
• Written from a broad international perspective with contributions from key international opinion leaders from Australia, UK, Canada and Europe
• Promotes international practice development in relation to management of skin integrity and chronic wounds
• Full colour illustrations throughout
• Contains definition of key terms, relates anatomy and physiology to clinical practice and provides a summary of easily accessible, internet learning resources
• Includes practical tips from expert practitioners, commonly presented clinical queries and discusses professional issues related to skin integrity.

Table of contents

List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements

Section 1 Principles of Best Practice

1 Evidence and Clinical Decision-making
Carolina Weller

2 Maintaining Skin Integrity
Arne Langøen and Janice Bianchi

3 Physiology of Wound Healing
Mary Martin

4 Assessing Skin Integrity
Annemarie Brown and Madeleine Flanagan

5 Principles of Wound Management
Madeleine Flanagan

6 Wound Infection
Valerie Edwards-Jones and Madeleine Flanagan

7 Psychological Impact of Skin Breakdown
Patricia Price

Section 2 Challenging Wounds

8 Pressure, Shear and Friction
Keryln Carville

9 Diabetic Foot Disease
Jan Apelqvist

10 Chronic Ulcers of the Lower Limb
Jeanette Muldoon

11 Lymphoedema
David Keast

12 Malignant Wounds
Wayne Naylor

13 Skin Integrity and Dermatology
Julia Schofield

14 Surgical Wounds
Alan Widgerow

15 Neglected Wounds
Kim Deroo, Lesley Robertson-Laxton, Sabina Sabo and Arlene A. Sardo

Section 3 Improving Skin Integrity Services

16 Reducing Wound Care Costs and Improving Quality: A Clinician’s Perspective
Theresa Hurd

17 Dressings: The Healing Revolution
Douglas Queen and Keith Harding

Index