Acute & Chronic Wounds: A Comprehensive Guide to Evidence-Based Wound Care

Get the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines with the 6th edition of Acute & Chronic Wounds, written by respected wound experts Ruth Bryant RN MS CWOCN and Denise Nix RN MS CWOCN. This interprofessional approach provides novice to expert clinicians with evidence-based, high-quality care for patients with wounds.

Comprehensive Approach to Wound Management

This textbook covers a wide range of topics, including the physiology of wound healing, general principles of wound management, special patient populations, management of percutaneous tubes, and specific care instructions to program development. It is an invaluable resource for skin health and wound management across all disciplines involved in wound care.

Learning Objectives and Clinical Consult

Each chapter begins with learning objectives that emphasize the most important content. The clinical consult feature provides a synthesis of the chapter content, illustrating how to assess, manage, and document a realistic clinical encounter using the ADPIE or SBAR framework.

Practical Tools and Algorithms

Checklists provide a concise list of actions necessary to achieve the best patient care outcomes or satisfy a particular objective. Practical tools and algorithms help in performing risk assessment, differential diagnosis, classification, treatment, and documentation.

Coverage of Practice Development Issues

This edition addresses outcomes and productivity in agencies and institutions, home care, acute care, long-term care, and long-term acute care settings.

Self-Assessment Questions and Appendices

Self-assessment questions help test your knowledge and prepare for certification exams. Helpful appendices provide answers to self-assessment questions, as well as various tools, policies and procedures, competencies, patient and family education guidance, and more.

New and Updated Content

New chapters on Postacute Care Settings, Telehealth and Wound Management, Quality Tracking Across the Continuum, and Medications and Phytotherapy: Impact on Wounds provide evidence-based coverage of these important topics. Consolidated pressure injuries content puts everything you need to know into one chapter. An expanded full-color insert includes 50 new images for a total of 95 color plates with more than 160 images that visually reinforce key concepts. New information presents the latest developments in biofilm assessment and management, topical oxygen therapy, skin manifestations related to COVID-19, and strategies to enhance engagement, as well as updated product photos and more authors who are clinical experts and providers.

With its comprehensive approach and expanded content, Acute & Chronic Wounds, 6th Edition is an essential resource for novice to expert clinicians seeking to provide evidence-based, high-quality care for patients with wounds.

Product Details:

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Edition: 6th edition (August 15, 2023)
• Language: English
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 680
• ISBN-10: 0323711901
• ISBN-13: 978-0323711906