Editorial Review:

Expanded and completely updated with the newest wound care products, this handbook is the only all-in-one portable guide to wound care and prevention strategies with more than 300 dressings, drugs, and other products for every type of wound. Part I provides detailed guidelines on wound care and prevention and related professional and legal issues. Part II features profiles and photographs of over 300 wound care products. Part III contains charts of over 200 additional dressings and products. Appendices include assessment tools and multiple treatment algorithms. A manufacturer resource guide includes addresses, telephone numbers, Websites, and manufacturer-sponsored educational programs.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Too Much About Products:

The sparse information in WOUND CARE about caring for wounds and preventing them is superb, but the manual is primarily a catalogue of products. The type of material provided in WOUND CARE can be found in the detail sheets packed with wound care products. I found the book a disappointment.

Wound Care, A Clinical Guide:

This book is an excellent nursing resource for wound care. The opening provides a quick review of wounds and the healing process. It then moves on to proper wound assessment techniques, staging, and measurement. A section is dedicated to describing product types used for the prevention of decubitis ulcers. What I found most helpful in the nursing field was the wound care product descriptions. The book gives a general overview of product types and catagories then procedes to list specific brand name... more info

Too much focus on products and not enough on wound care:

Received this book as a CEU offering. It seemed 3/4 of the book was on products. In some ways this was helpful as a comparison reference, but in this day of managed care, I can't use all these products. Would have liked more information on wound healing

a list of wound care products, not a text on doing woundcare:

if you're looking for a comprehensive listing of wound care products (dressings, gels, etc.) then this book is a good resource. my only complaint is that it is misleadingly titled. only a brief, introductory section of the book actually discusses wound care, and it does it in such a short space that it is useless to the beginner (because it lacks detail and specificity) and useless to the experienced clinician (because it lacks in-depth analysis and meaningful references). it certainly does list just about... more info

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