Main description:

This book offers healthcare professionals practically everything they need to know about treating chronic wounds. It focuses on what is really important in practice, giving up-to-date clinical evidence for each case. Numerous colour photos and illustrations show representative cases from daily clinical practice and ensure optimum clarity.

The well-known publishers and authors from Initiative Chronic Wounds (ICW) share their expert knowledge and show the reader what to look out for.

Included in the contents:

The basics and pathophysiology of wound-healing

Wounds in diabetes, CVI, PAOD, pressure sores, burns, etc.
Factors which inhibit wound-healing
Factors which support wound-healing
Pain therapy
Prophylactic measures and relapse prevention
Living with the wound
Management and documentation of wounds

Contents:

I The basics

1 History of the treatment of chronic wounds

2 Current defi nitions and spellings for the treatment of chronic wounds

3 Epidemiology

4 Evidence and guidelines

5 Ethical aspects

6 Hygiene

7 Physiology and pathology of wound-healing

II Disease patterns

8 Systematic diagnosis of chronic wounds: the ABCDE rule

9 Disease patterns of peripheral artery disease (PAD)

10 Disease patterns in diabetes mellitus

11 Disease patterns in chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)

12 Disease patterns in pressur ulcers13 Disease patterns in burns

14 Rare causes of chronic wounds

15 Pathological skin changes

16 Pathological scars

17 Cooling down and wound-healing

III Factors which inhibit wound-healing

18 Nutrition for patients with chronic wounds

19 Disease patterns in oedema, lymphoedema, and lipoedema

20 Obesity-associated wound treatment

21 Wound care for patients with dementia

22 Systematics of wound treatment - the M.O.I.S.T. concept

IV Factors which support wound-healing

23 Systematic wound treatment - the WundUhr (R)

24 Systematics of debridement

25 Systematics of infection control

26 Systematics of wound therapeutics

27 Systematics of surgical treatment

28 Systematics of physical wound treatment

29 Systematics of compression therapy

30 Systematics of pressure relief

31 Systematics of oxygen therapy in wound treatment

32 Systematics of physiotherapy

33 Skin substitutes

34 Systematics of drug therapy

35 Special aspects of palliative medicine

36 Wound therapy for split skingrafts

V Prophylactic measures

37 Periwound skin

38 Skincare

39 Allergy

40 Podiatry in patients with foot diseases

41 Pain therapy

42 Placebo

VI Living with a wound

43 Body perception

44 Health-related quality of life

45 Secondary illness gain

VII Structures

46 Wound documentation

47 Requirements in wound management

48 Health economics and people-centred wound care

Index