Main description:

Focusing on local wound care specifically for the dermatologist, this concise text provides a go-to source for practitioners looking for a quick solution for many of the most common wounds as well as an update on what's new in the field. From the most basic principles of local wound care to a look at what upcoming therapies like stem cells and lasers can do, this text is comprehensive and informed. Providing quality local wound care requires an ample knowledge of available products, their cost effectiveness, and the principles for the optimal interventions; Local Wound Care for Dermatologists includes these three guiding points in each chapter that focuses on a specific therapy. Expertly written text is accompanied by multiple tables of drug-specific names, current price points, and comparable products. Chapters include many color images, thereby providing insight to a given wound and the various therapies available to treat it. While the basics are reviewed in the opening chapters, later chapters feature updates in therapies including discussions on what's new in skin substitutes, negative pressure wound therapy, oxygen therapy, and an update in cell based therapy. Written with the dermatologist in mind, Local Wound Care for Dermatologists is an indispensable reference for students, residents, and practicing doctors alike. General practitioners and plastic surgeons will also find this title a useful refresher.

Contents:

Ch 1: The basic principles in local wound care

Afsaneh Alavi, Robert Kirsner

Ch 2: Skin Health

Sandy Skotnicki

Ch 3: Chronic wounds and infection

Eran Shavit, Gregory Schultz

Ch 4: Wound dressing

Dorothy Weir

Ch 5: Antiseptic and antibacterial agents

Gary Sibbald

Ch 6: Topical anti-inflammatory agents in wound care

Andrea Ghiricozzi, Marco Romanelli

Ch 7: Wound Dressing Allergic Contact Dermatitis: Epidemiology and Management

John Havens Cary, Becky S. Li, Rasika Reddy, Howard Maibach

Ch 8: Vascular Tests for Dermatologists

Ali Rajabi-Estarabadi, Mahtab Forouzandeh, Ahmed Kayssi, Afsaneh Alavi

Ch 9: Compression Therapy

Joshua S. Mervis, Hadar Lev-tov

Ch 10: Management of diabetic foot ulcers: Offloading and Debridement

Chia-Ding Shih, Laura Shin, David G. Armstrong

Ch 11: Negative pressure wound therapy

Valentina Dini

Ch 12: Oxygen therapy in wound healing

Marjam J. Barysch, Severin Laeuchli

Ch 13: The role of ablative fractional lasers in wound healing

Joshua S. Mervis, Tania J. Phillips

Ch 14: Stem cell therapy in wound care

Makram E. Aljghami, Saeid Amini-Nik

Ch 15: Cellular and Acellular based Therapies: Skin Substitutes and Matrices

Brian Cahn, Hadar Lev-Tov

Ch 16: Local peristomal cutaneous manifestations and their management

Kimberly LeBlanc, Lorne Wiesenfeld

Ch 17: Wound care in malignant wounds

Alina Markova, Brooke Corbett, Nina Blank

Ch 18: Wound Healing in Hidradenitis Suppurativa

Asma Amir Ali, Michelle A. Lowes, Afsaneh Alavi

Ch 19: Wound Healing in Pyoderma Gangrenosum

Asma Amir Ali, Angelo Valerio Marzano, Afsaneh Alavi

Ch 20: Scar management

Severin Laeuchli