ABC of Wound Healing

ABC of Wound Healing, Second Edition ABC of Wound Healing is a practical, highly illustrated guide to assessment, diagnosis and management of all common types of acute and chronic wounds. This concise yet comprehensive reference covers all essential aspects of wound healing care, including epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, treatment, long-term management, and prevention This revised second edition contains several new chapters on lymphoedema, nutrition, skin care, continence, and scarring. Updated and expanded chapters cover a wider range of devices and therapies, and discuss additional factors that impact wound healing processes, offering new clinical photographs as a visual guide. Applying a multidisciplinary approach to the provision of wound care, ABC of Wound Healing: Covers common wounds including traumatic wounds, surgical wounds, diabetic foot ulcers, pressure injuries, and venous and arterial leg ulcers Emphasises the importance of reaching a diagnosis, the fundamental step in managing any wound Provides up-to-date information on physical, chemical, biological and emerging therapies for patients with various types of wounds Contains hundreds of full-colour illustrations and clinical photographs of wounds and treatments ABC of Wound Healing, Second Edition, remains a must-have guide for junior doctors, specialist registrars in medicine and surgery, specialist nurses, general practitioners and medical students.

List of Contributors, vi Foreword, viii 1 Wound Assessment, 1 Joseph E. Grey and Girish K. Patel 2 Traumatic Wounds, 9 Steven L.A. Jeffery and Stuart Enoch 3 Surgical Wounds and Surgical Site Infection, 14 Rhiannon L. Harries, Jared Torkington, and David Leaper 4 Burns, 20 Jonathan J. Cubitt and William A. Dickson 5 Diabetic Foot Ulcers, 26 Michael E. Edmonds and Annie Price 6 Venous and Arterial Leg Ulcers, 34 Joseph E. Grey and Girish K. Patel 7 Pressure Injuries, 41 Joseph E. Grey and Jacqui Fletcher 8 Uncommon Causes of Ulceration, 49 Girish K. Patel and Vincent Piguet 9 Infections, 56 Brendan Healy and Andrew Freedman 10 Lymphoedema and Wounds, 64 Christine Moffatt and Melanie Thomas 11 Nutrition, Skin Care and Continence, 71 Amy Ferris, Joseph E. Grey, and Girish K. Patel 12 Scars, 78 Paul Martin and Duncan A. McGrouther 13 Dressings and Devices, 85 Samantha Holloway, Stuart Enoch, and Joseph E. Grey 14 Drugs and Biological Approaches to Wound Healing, 94 Gregory Schultz and Girish K. Patel Index, 102