Tissue Viability

by Sylvie Hampton; Fiona Collins

• ISBN13: 9781861562371
• ISBN10: 1861562373
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive learning package about tissue viability. It covers all aspects of wound prevention and management, and explains the microbiology of the healing process. The book also discusses factors that affect healing, such as pressure sores. Management, audit and the law, as they relate to healing, are also covered in some depth.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
Chapter 1 The skin and wound healing	1	(39)
Chapter 2 Holistic wound assessments	40	(36)
Chapter 3 Dressings and treatments	76	(56)
Chapter 4 Wound infection and colonization	132	(28)
Chapter 5 Assessment, management and treatment of leg and foot ulceration	160	(51)
Chapter 6 Nutrition and wound healing	211	(13)
Katherine Martyn
Chapter 7 Surgical wounds	224	(16)
Chapter 8 Fungating tumours	240	(15)
Chapter 9 Pressure ulcer prevention	255	(56)
Chapter 10 The relationship of seating to pressure ulcer prevention	311	(31)
Chapter 11 Foam technology and its role in wound management and prevention	342	(34)
Fiona Collins, Kate Springett, Mathew Philip, Leyton Stevens and Sylvie Hampton
Chapter 12 The process of audit and research in tissue viability	376	(15)
Chapter 13 Ethics, the law and accountability in wound care	391	(15)
Chapter 14 The specialist nurse in wound management	406	(19)
Appendix 1 Some recognized dressings	425	(20)
Bibliography	445	(30)
Index	475