This useful resource will help both clinicians and institutions deliver wound care that's both appropriate for patient needs and cost-effective for the institution. Featuring important new information on documentation regulations, including helpful checklists and offering take-away highlights in every chapter, this useful resource also provides new content on lymphedema management guidelines, negative pressure wound therapy and capturing data using today's media capabilities. Part one covers the fundamentals of skin and wound care, including assessment, treatment, prevention, nutrition and documentation. Part two offers profiles and photos of hundreds of skin and wound care products, all categorized and alphabetized for easy reference. The book also includes a full-color wound photo section, wound checklists and much more.

Revised edition of: Skin & wound care / Cathy Thomas Hess. 6th ed. ©2008.

pt. I. Mastering skin and wound care. Skin care and wound prevention strategies -- Assessing documenting chronic wounds -- Understanding and managing chronic wounds -- Best practices for managing the effects of lymphedema -- Laboratory values in chronic wound management -- Harnessing technology : EMR checklists and operational compliance -- pt. II. Skin and wound care products. Overview -- Skin care products -- Dressings and devices -- Drugs -- pt. III. Additional dressings and products. Overview -- Abdominal dressing holders or binders -- Compression bandage systems -- Conforming bandages -- Elastic bandage rolls -- Gauze, impregnated with other than water, normal saline, or hydrogel, without adhesive border -- Gauze, nonimpregnated, with adhesive border -- Gauze, nonimpregnated, without adhesive border -- Tapes -- Wound cleansers.