Informa Healthcare - web catalogue

Explore the role of surgery in wound bed preparation and management. This source illustrates techniques used to design healing environments, maximize efficacy of existing treatment modalities, and extract bacteria from wound situations resulting from burns, trauma, and disease.

Describing clinical situations with full-color photographs, this source examines:

• factors influencing surgical wound healing
• mechanisms, physiology, and metabolic control
• the risk of surgical site infection
• techniques for debridement of leg and foot ulcers, infected orthopedic prostheses, surgical wounds, and pressure ulcers
• new methods of treating difficult-to-heal wounds
• correcting chronic wounds quickly by treating the cause of the wound and applying evidence-based, medical, and surgical techniques
• a new classification system for debrievement of chronic and acute wounds
• obtaining a surgically clean wound in preparation for surgical closure