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For courses in Wound Healing/Care.

This comprehensive text concisely presents students and clinicians with relevant information on the management of patients with open wounds, and addresses wounds not usually found in other texts—wounds due to burns, lymphedema, surgery, bites, radiation, and other types of trauma. Its clinically useful format emphasizes material that can be directly applied to the real world of patient care, and focuses on the patient rather than the wound. Also stressed throughout the book: 1) an interdisciplinary approach to wound management; 2) education of patients, caregivers, and healthcare team members; and 3) ways to reduce the risk of wound recurrence.

• Theories and terminology based on The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.

  • Consistent with accepted educational philosophy, framework, and terminology of physical therapy curricula.

• Color case studies—Integrates material throughout the book with a series of questions about the provided color images of patients with open wounds.

  • Helps students apply text concepts to patient care.

• Numerous figures, tables, and photos.

  • Helps students identify and better understand key points, and supplies them with step-by-step directions on how to perform certain procedures—such as bandaging and culturing wounds.

• Free CD-ROM—Each book contains an electronic atlas of wound images in Power Point format.

  • Contains questions and cases.

• Up-to-date and inclusive content throughout.

  • Summarizes currently available research on wound management and provides direct guidance for readers.

• Chapter learning objectives and key terms.

  • Focuses readers' attention on clinically relevant information to be mastered within the chapter.

• Chapter-end review questions and summaries.

  • Enables readers to self-assess their comprehension of key content in each chapter.

• Unique chapters on Miscellaneous Wounds and Basic Dermatology —Chapters 15 & 16.

  • Provides students with the full range of wound management issues they will face in a clinical setting. Enables instructorsto refer to just one resource for all of their wound management issues and teaching tools.

I. BASIC SCIENCE.

II. WOUND EXAMINATION AND INTERVENTIONS.

III. WOUND TYPES.

Wound Healing / Care (Physical Therapy)
Introductory Physical Therapy (Physical Therapy)

Wound Management: Principles and Practice 2e  is designed to create a link between the written text and actual patients in the clinic. Each chapter begins with a list of key terms and chapter objectives to prepare the reader for the material that follows. Chapters include numerous tables, figures, and photographs that highlight important information while checkpoint questions within each chapter pose clinically relevant questions to promote reader comprehension. Review questions located at the end of each chapter provide an opportunity for readers to master chapter information. A superior learning tool for clinicians and students,
• Wound Management: Principles and Practice, 2/E
  Myers
  © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 504 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132294567 | ISBN-13: 9780132294560
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Wound Management is a comprehensive resource that covers the broad spectrum of managing patients with open wounds. Appropriate for both practicing clinicians and students, this resource takes a holistic approach to treatment, with an emphasis on the patient -- not the wound. It begins by covering anatomy and adverse effects, then provides an overview of examination, intervention, and details specific wound types.

Features:

• FREE CD-ROM includes full-color images
• Chapter-beginning key terms and chapter objectives highlight chapter content
• Numerous tables, figures and photographs reinforce concepts
• Checkpoint questions throughout each chapter reinforce comprehension
• Chapter-ending review questions test understanding
• Case studies turn concepts into real-world situations

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