[Book Description]

The content of this third edition represents several radical changes from the previous editions.
- The most apparent change is the color insert containing over 50 color pictures of wounds and related technologies. This section will be especially valuable to students and novice clinicians in making it easier for them to identify wound types and characteristics and to visualize selected types of equipment.
- Another new feature is the integration of the principles and recommendations espused by the APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice into the clinical chapters and case studies dealing with patients who have wounds of the integument. The new chapters follow the Guide's approach to patient examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and attainment of functional outcomes.
- In addition to these changes, the third edition has 13 new authors, all of whom have had years of experience in wound care and/or research and education. These authors have incorporated the latest in wound research findings, technological advances, and documentation methods into their chapters.
- Another unique feature of the text is found in two new chapters, one dealing with electrical stimulation and the other with six alternative wound interventions. These two chapters use an evidence-based approach that evaluates the clinical trials related to each intervention and then rates the wound-healing efficacy of each modality according to an A, B, C hierarchy. These chapters provide students, clinicians, and payors of health-care services with the current research evidence on which reimbursement is increasingly based.


[Contents]

SECTIONⅠ: The Wound-Healing Environment
Chapter 1. The Normal Process of Healing
Chapter 2. Nutriton and Wound Healing
Chapter 3. Factors Impeding Wound Healing
Chapter 4. Bacteriology and Infection Control
Chapter 5. Growth Factors, Extracellular Matrix, and Wound Healing

SECTIONⅡ. Evaluation
Chapter 6. Methods of Wound Evaluation

SECTIONⅢ. Prinsiples and Techniques
Chapter 7. Wound Debridement and Irrigation
Chapter 8. Dressings
Chapter 9. Electrical Stimulation for Wound Healing
Chapter 10. Adjunctive Interventions for Wound Healing

SECTIONⅣ: Case Management and Documentation
Chapter 11. Management of the Insensate Foot
Chapter 12. Management of Wounds Secondary to Vascular Disease
Chapter 13. Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers
Chapter 14. Documentation for Reimbursement

Glossary
Index