Acute & Chronic Wounds, 6th Edition: The Ultimate Resource for Wound Care Professionals

By Ruth Bryant RN MS CWOCN and Denise Nix RN MS CWOCN, this comprehensive textbook provides the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines for wound care professionals to deliver evidence-based, high-quality care to patients with acute and chronic wounds.

Comprehensive Approach to Wound Management

This interprofessional approach covers the prevention and management of acute and chronic wounds, making it an indispensable resource for skin health and wound management across all disciplines involved in wound care, from novice to expert clinicians.

The textbook presents a wide range of topics, including:

• The physiology of wound healing
• General principles of wound management
• Special patient populations
• Management of percutaneous tubes
• Specific care instructions
• Program development

Learning Resources and Tools

To enhance learning and retention, each chapter includes:

• Learning Objectives to emphasize key content
• Clinical Consult features to illustrate real-world clinical scenarios
• Checklists to ensure best patient care outcomes
• Practical tools and algorithms for risk assessment, differential diagnosis, classification, treatment, and documentation

Preparing for Wound Certification Exams

This textbook provides excellent preparation for all wound certification exams, with self-assessment questions to test your knowledge and helpful appendices that include answers, tools, policies, and procedures, competencies, patient and family education guidance, and more.

New and Updated Content

This 6th edition includes new chapters on:

• Postacute Care Settings
• Telehealth and Wound Management
• Quality Tracking Across the Continuum
• Medications and Phytotherapy: Impact on Wounds

The textbook also features updated content on:

• Consolidated pressure injuries content in one chapter
• Expanded full-color insert with 50 new images, totaling 95 color plates with over 160 images
• Biofilm assessment and management
• Topical oxygen therapy
• Skin manifestations related to COVID-19
• Strategies to enhance engagement
• Updated product photos and contributions from clinical experts and providers

Book Details

Acute & Chronic Wounds, 6th Edition is published by Elsevier and available in hardcover format, comprising 680 pages. The ISBN-10 is 9780323711906, and the ISBN-13 is 978-0323711906.