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Clinical guide to skin & wound care /

This useful resource will help both clinicians and institutions deliver wound care that's both appropriate for patient needs and cost-effective for the institution. Featuring important new information on documentation regulations, including helpful checklists and offering take-away highlights i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hess, Cathy Thomas, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, PA : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013.
Edición:Seventh edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Mastering skin and wound care. Skin care and wound prevention strategies
  • Assessing documenting chronic wounds
  • Understanding and managing chronic wounds
  • Best practices for managing the effects of lymphedema
  • Laboratory values in chronic wound management
  • Harnessing technology : EMR checklists and operational compliance
  • pt. II. Skin and wound care products. Overview
  • Skin care products
  • Dressings and devices
  • Drugs
  • pt. III. Additional dressings and products. Overview
  • Abdominal dressing holders or binders
  • Compression bandage systems
  • Conforming bandages
  • Elastic bandage rolls
  • Gauze, impregnated with other than water, normal saline, or hydrogel, without adhesive border
  • Gauze, nonimpregnated, with adhesive border
  • Gauze, nonimpregnated, without adhesive border
  • Tapes
  • Wound cleansers.