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This new edition of Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles covers all aspects of wound assessment, treatment, and care. It also covers topics that other references do not, including sickle cell wounds, atypical wounds, and an entire chapter devoted to special populations.

What's new?

• A separate chapter on tubes, drains, fistulas, and peristomal skin management
• A separate chapter on the pediatric patient
• A chapter devoted to special populations, including intensive care, spinal cord injury, and HIV/AIDS populations.

Chapters include:

Part 1-Wound Care Concepts: 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 and Infection; Wound Debridement; Wound Treatment Options; Nutrition and Wound Care; Pressure Redistribution: Seating, Positioning, and Support Services; and Pain Management and Wounds.

Part 2-Wound Classifications and Managment Strategies: Pressure Ulcers; Venous Disease and Lymphedema Management; Arterial Ulcers; Diabetic Foot Ulcers; Sickle Cell Ulcers; Surgical Reconstruction of Wounds; Tube, Drain, and Fistula Management; Atypical Wounds; Wounds in Special Populations: Intensive Care, Spinal Cord Injury, HIV/AIDS, and Bariatrics; Pressure Ulcers in Neonatal and Pediatric Populations; and Palliative Wound Care.

(The Section A quiz worth 17 contact hours includes all of Part 1 except for pain management; the Section B quiz, also worth 17 contact hours, covers pain management and all of Part 2.)