Chronic Wounds - Englische Ausgabe

Diagnostics - Therapy - Health Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-7020-6762-4
Verlag: Churchill Livingstone

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 820 g

This book offers health care professionals practically everything they need to know about treating chronic wounds. It focuses on what is really important in practice, giving up-to-date clinical evidence for each case. Numerous colour photos and illustrations show representative cases from daily clinical practice and ensure optimum clarity. The well-known publishers and authors from Initiative Chronische Wunden (ICW) share their expert knowledge and show the reader what to look out for. Included in the contents: - The basics and pathophysiology of wound-healing - Wounds in diabetes, CVI, PAOD, pressure ulcers, burns, etc. - Factors which inhibit wound-healing - Factors which support wound-healing - Pain therapy - Prophylactic measures and relapse prevention - Living with the wound - Management and documentation of wounds

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dissemond, Joachim

Kröger, Knut

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Dermatologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Allgemeinmedizin, Familienmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I The basics

1 History of the treatment of chronic wounds

2 Current defi nitions and spellings for the treatment of chronic wounds

3 Epidemiology

4 Evidence and guidelines

5 Ethical aspects

6 Hygiene

7 Physiology and pathology of wound-healing

II Disease patterns

8 Systematic diagnosis of chronic wounds: the ABCDE rule

9 Disease patterns of peripheral artery disease (PAD)

10 Disease patterns in diabetes mellitus

11 Disease patterns in chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)

12 Disease patterns in pressur ulcers13 Disease patterns in burns

14 Rare causes of chronic wounds

15 Pathological skin changes

16 Pathological scars

17 Cooling down and wound-healing

III Factors which inhibit wound-healing

18 Nutrition for patients with chronic wounds

19 Disease patterns in oedema, lymphoedema, and lipoedema

20 Obesity-associated wound treatment

21 Wound care for patients with dementia

22 Systematics of wound treatment - the M.O.I.S.T. concept

IV Factors which support wound-healing

23 Systematic wound treatment - the WundUhr®

24 Systematics of debridement

25 Systematics of infection control

26 Systematics of wound therapeutics

27 Systematics of surgical treatment

28 Systematics of physical wound treatment

29 Systematics of compression therapy

30 Systematics of pressure relief

31 Systematics of oxygen therapy in wound treatment

32 Systematics of physiotherapy

33 Skin substitutes

34 Systematics of drug therapy

35 Special aspects of palliative medicine

36 Wound therapy for split skingrafts

V Prophylactic measures

37 Periwound skin

38 Skincare

39 Allergy

40 Podiatry in patients with foot diseases

41 Pain therapy

42 Placebo

VI Living with a wound

43 Body perception

44 Health-related quality of life

45 Secondary illness gain

VII Structures

46 Wound documentation

47 Requirements in wound management

48 Health economics and people-centred wound care

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Dissemond
Facharzt für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Zusatzbezeichnungen für Allergologie und Sportmedizin; Oberarzt und Leiter der zertifizierten dermatologischen Wundambulanz, Universitätsklinikum Essen;
Zertifizierter ärztlicher Wundexperte ICW; Vorstandsmitglied bei: Initiative Chronische Wunden (ICW) e.V., Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wundheilung (AGW) der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft (DDG), Wund-DACH
Deutscher Wundrat.
Prof. Dr. med. Knut Kröger ist Facharzt für Innere Medizin mit den Schwerpunkten Angiologie und Hämostaseologie und Direktor an der Klinik für Gefäßmedizin des Helios Klinikums Krefeld