Optimize Your Skin and Wound Care with the Product Guide

As a wound care practitioner, choosing the right skin and wound care products is crucial for your patients’ health and recovery. The Product Guide to Skin and Wound Care, 8th Edition, is an invaluable resource that lists 294 products in alphabetical order, providing detailed information on sizes, action, indications, contraindications, application, and removal. This handy guide helps you make informed decisions about the best products for your patients’ needs.

NEW Products and Updates

The 8th edition of the Product Guide includes new products to update your formulary choices, including sizes, action, indication, application, and removal information. It also offers enhanced, full-color manufacturer photos of each product, making it easier to understand the characteristics, function, and use of various skin and wound care dressings, drugs, and devices.

Alphabetical Wound Care Product Guide

This comprehensive guide illustrates the following:

• Product information detailing action, indications, contraindications, application, and removal
• Reimbursement codes for products provided by manufacturers
• Many product references supporting products

Wound Care Product Categories

The guide covers a wide range of wound care product categories, including:

• Alginates
• Antimicrobials
• Cellular and tissue-based products
• Collagens
• Composites
• Contact layers
• Drugs
• Foams
• Hydrocolloids
• Hydrogels
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Specialty absorptives
• Surgical dressings
• Transparent films
• Wound fillers
• Other devices and products

Additional Product Listings

The guide also provides a comprehensive listing of additional products, such as:

• Abdominal dressings and holders
• Compression bandage systems
• Conforming bandages
• Elastic bandage rolls
• Impregnated gauzes
• Nonimpregnated gauzes
• Packing strips
• Tapes
• Wound cleansers

About the Author

Cathy Thomas Hess, RN, BSN, CWCN, resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. With over 30 years of wound care experience in a variety of healthcare settings, she has been engaged to share her expertise with skin and wound care practitioners, manufacturers, product suppliers, insurers, law firms, and governmental agencies. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board and Contributing Author for Advances in Skin and Wound Care and other health care periodicals. She is a past Board Member and Marketing Chair for the Wound, Continence, and Ostomy Certification Board, has appeared in educational videos, authored journal articles and book chapters, and is a national and international speaker.