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Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin : a Practical Guide for Patients with Chronic Wounds /

Seven million Americans suffer from chronic or slow-healing wounds--this number includes people with diabetes, dementia, paralysis, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and poor circulation, as well as the elderly and those with reduced mobility. Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin provides patients and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reddy, Madhuri
Otros Autores: Cottrill, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Yale University Press health & wellness.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Healing Your Wound: The Top Ten Myths Dispelled
  • Preface
  • PART ONE: When You Have a Wound That Wonâ€?t Heal
  • 1. How Wounds Heal
  • 2. Recognizing Your Fears
  • 3. Creating Your Health-Care Team: It Takes a Village
  • 4. Your Initial Visit with the Wound Team
  • PART TWO: Pressure Sores
  • 5. Why Do Pressure Sores Happen?
  • 6. Prevention Is Always Best
  • 7. Beds and Cushions: Expensive Is Not Always Best
  • PART THREE: Foot Wounds: Diabetes and Beyond
  • 8. The Foot Wound That Doesnâ€?t Hurt
  • 9. Shoes and Socks: When What You Wear Can Be the Best MedicinePART FOUR: Blood Circulation: Essential for Healing
  • 10. Venous Wounds: Dealing with Foot and Leg Wounds if Your Circulation Is Good
  • 11. Arterial Wounds: Dealing with Foot and Leg Wounds if Your Circulation Is Poor
  • 12. Swelling: What Your Achy Feet Are Telling You
  • PART FIVE: Acute Wounds
  • 13. Healing After Surgery
  • 14. Traumatic Wounds: Burns, Cuts, and More
  • PART SIX: Nonhealing Wounds
  • 15. Infected Wounds
  • 16. Unusual Wounds
  • 17. Still Not Healing ... What Are We Missing?
  • PART SEVEN: Wound Treatments: Let the Healing Begin18. What Do I Put on This Wound?
  • 19. Growth Factors and Engineered Skin: The Future Is Here
  • 20. Adjunctive and Alternative Therapies 154
  • 21. Surgery for Chronic Wound Treatment: When Cutting Can Heal 158
  • PART EIGHT: Wounds in Specific Populations and Conditions
  • 22. Nervous System Damage: Spinal Cord Injury, Spina Bifida, and Multiple Sclerosis
  • 23. Healing Challenges and the Older Person
  • 24. Children and Teenagers
  • 25. Wounds in Dark Skin
  • 26. Wounds and Excess Weight
  • 27. Solutions to Stoma Struggles28. Living with an Amputation
  • 29. The Wounds of War
  • 30. Wounds and Cancer
  • 31. Wounds in the Dying: When Comfort Comes First
  • PART NINE: Beyond the Wound
  • 32. Eating Well: The Healing Potential of Food
  • 33. Exercise for Wound Healing
  • 34. Pain: The Burden of Suffering
  • 35. Skin Problems That Coexist with Wounds
  • 36. Emotional Aspects of Wound Healing: When the Wound Is More than Skin Deep
  • 37. Care for the Caregiver: Beating the Burnout
  • 38. Online Medical Resources: How to Separate Clever Advertising from Effective Medicine39. Payment and Reimbursement Issues: Whoâ€?s Picking Up the Check
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  • Wound Cleansers and Dressings
  • The Wound Patientâ€?s Bill of Rights
  • Additional Resources
  • References
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