Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy

Contents

1 Skin anatomy and physiology and wound healing

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Charleen Singh 2 Wound assessment and monitoring

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Kathleen McLaughlin 3 Wound bed preparation

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Kathleen McLaughlin 4 External threats to skin integrity

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Joan Junkin 5 Acute wounds Jody Scardillo 6 Pressure injuries

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Jill Cox 7 Lower extremity ulcers: vascular and neuropathic 174 Arturo Gonzalez and Michele (Shelly) Burdette-Taylor 8 Atypical and malignant wounds 244 Denise C. Connelly 9 Wound management 263 Kathleen McLaughlin 10 Pediatric skin and wound care fundamentals 302 Charleen Singh Appendices and index Appendix 1: Bates-JensenWound AssessmentTool 314 Appendix 2:Wound bed preparation 320 Appendix 3: Pressure injury prevention algorithm 327 Appendix 4: Prevention and treatment of pressure injuries: Nutrition guidelines for adults 328 Appendix 5: Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) 330 Appendix 6:Wound care dressing review 331 Appendix 7: Filling dead space 338 Index 339

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