Wound care essentials practice principles

Includes index and appendix.

Quality of life and ethical issues -- Regulation and wound care -- Legal aspects of wound care -- Skin: an essential organ -- Acute and chronic wound healing -- Wound assessment -- Wound bioburden -- Wound debridement -- Wound treatment options -- Nutrition and wound care -- Pressure redistribution: seating, positioning, and support surfaces -- Pain management and wounds -- Pressure ulcers -- Venous ulcers , lymphedema, and compression therapy -- Arterial ulcers -- Diabetic foot ulcers -- Sickle cell ulcers -- Surgical wounds, tubes, and drains -- Atypical wounds -- Wounds in special populations -- Palliative wound care -- Wound care: where we were, where we are, where we're going.