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Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin : A Practical Guide for Patients with Chronic Wounds.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale University Press Health and Wellness SeriesPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (333 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300171723
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Healing Wounds, Healthy SkinDDC classification:
  • 617.1/06
LOC classification:
  • RD94 -- .R43 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Healing Your Wound: The Top Ten Myths Dispelled -- Preface -- PART ONE: When You Have a Wound That Won't Heal -- 1. How Wounds Heal -- 2. Recognizing Your Fears -- 3. Creating Your Health-Care Team: It Takes a Village -- 4. Your Initial Visit with the Wound Team -- PART TWO: Pressure Sores -- 5. Why Do Pressure Sores Happen? -- 6. Prevention Is Always Best -- 7. Beds and Cushions: Expensive Is Not Always Best -- PART THREE: Foot Wounds: Diabetes and Beyond -- 8. The Foot Wound That Doesn't Hurt -- 9. Shoes and Socks: When What You Wear Can Be the Best Medicine -- PART FOUR: Blood Circulation: Essential for Healing -- 10. Venous Wounds: Dealing with Foot and Leg Wounds if Your Circulation Is Good -- 11. Arterial Wounds: Dealing with Foot and Leg Wounds if Your Circulation Is Poor -- 12. Swelling: What Your Achy Feet Are Telling You -- PART FIVE: Acute Wounds -- 13. Healing After Surgery -- 14. Traumatic Wounds: Burns, Cuts, and More -- PART SIX: Nonhealing Wounds -- 15. Infected Wounds -- 16. Unusual Wounds -- 17. Still Not Healing . . . What Are We Missing? -- PART SEVEN: Wound Treatments: Let the Healing Begin -- 18. What Do I Put on This Wound? -- 19. Growth Factors and Engineered Skin: The Future Is Here -- 20. Adjunctive and Alternative Therapies 154 -- 21. Surgery for Chronic Wound Treatment: When Cutting Can Heal 158 -- PART EIGHT: Wounds in Specific Populations and Conditions -- 22. Nervous System Damage: Spinal Cord Injury, Spina Bifida, and Multiple Sclerosis -- 23. Healing Challenges and the Older Person -- 24. Children and Teenagers -- 25. Wounds in Dark Skin -- 26. Wounds and Excess Weight -- 27. Solutions to Stoma Struggles -- 28. Living with an Amputation -- 29. The Wounds of War -- 30. Wounds and Cancer -- 31. Wounds in the Dying: When Comfort Comes First -- PART NINE: Beyond the Wound.
32. Eating Well: The Healing Potential of Food -- 33. Exercise for Wound Healing -- 34. Pain: The Burden of Suffering -- 35. Skin Problems That Coexist with Wounds -- 36. Emotional Aspects of Wound Healing: When the Wound Is More than Skin Deep -- 37. Care for the Caregiver: Beating the Burnout -- 38. Online Medical Resources: How to Separate Clever Advertising from Effective Medicine -- 39. Payment and Reimbursement Issues: Who's Picking Up the Check -- Glossary of Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Wound Cleansers and Dressings -- The Wound Patient's Bill of Rights -- Additional Resources -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Healing Your Wound: The Top Ten Myths Dispelled -- Preface -- PART ONE: When You Have a Wound That Won't Heal -- 1. How Wounds Heal -- 2. Recognizing Your Fears -- 3. Creating Your Health-Care Team: It Takes a Village -- 4. Your Initial Visit with the Wound Team -- PART TWO: Pressure Sores -- 5. Why Do Pressure Sores Happen? -- 6. Prevention Is Always Best -- 7. Beds and Cushions: Expensive Is Not Always Best -- PART THREE: Foot Wounds: Diabetes and Beyond -- 8. The Foot Wound That Doesn't Hurt -- 9. Shoes and Socks: When What You Wear Can Be the Best Medicine -- PART FOUR: Blood Circulation: Essential for Healing -- 10. Venous Wounds: Dealing with Foot and Leg Wounds if Your Circulation Is Good -- 11. Arterial Wounds: Dealing with Foot and Leg Wounds if Your Circulation Is Poor -- 12. Swelling: What Your Achy Feet Are Telling You -- PART FIVE: Acute Wounds -- 13. Healing After Surgery -- 14. Traumatic Wounds: Burns, Cuts, and More -- PART SIX: Nonhealing Wounds -- 15. Infected Wounds -- 16. Unusual Wounds -- 17. Still Not Healing . . . What Are We Missing? -- PART SEVEN: Wound Treatments: Let the Healing Begin -- 18. What Do I Put on This Wound? -- 19. Growth Factors and Engineered Skin: The Future Is Here -- 20. Adjunctive and Alternative Therapies 154 -- 21. Surgery for Chronic Wound Treatment: When Cutting Can Heal 158 -- PART EIGHT: Wounds in Specific Populations and Conditions -- 22. Nervous System Damage: Spinal Cord Injury, Spina Bifida, and Multiple Sclerosis -- 23. Healing Challenges and the Older Person -- 24. Children and Teenagers -- 25. Wounds in Dark Skin -- 26. Wounds and Excess Weight -- 27. Solutions to Stoma Struggles -- 28. Living with an Amputation -- 29. The Wounds of War -- 30. Wounds and Cancer -- 31. Wounds in the Dying: When Comfort Comes First -- PART NINE: Beyond the Wound.

32. Eating Well: The Healing Potential of Food -- 33. Exercise for Wound Healing -- 34. Pain: The Burden of Suffering -- 35. Skin Problems That Coexist with Wounds -- 36. Emotional Aspects of Wound Healing: When the Wound Is More than Skin Deep -- 37. Care for the Caregiver: Beating the Burnout -- 38. Online Medical Resources: How to Separate Clever Advertising from Effective Medicine -- 39. Payment and Reimbursement Issues: Who's Picking Up the Check -- Glossary of Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Wound Cleansers and Dressings -- The Wound Patient's Bill of Rights -- Additional Resources -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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