Surgical Wound Healing and Management illustrates the many techniques utilized by surgeons to design optimal healing environments, maximize the efficacy of existing treatment modalities, and extract bacteria from a variety of wound situations resulting from burns, trauma, and disease.

The book describes the factors that influence surgical wound healing and the risk of surgical site infection.

Features:

• provides in-depth examinations of a variety of clinical situations with numerous full-color photographs
• contains extensive coverage of techniques for the debridement of leg and foot ulcers, infected orthopedic prostheses, surgical wounds, and pressure ulcers
• discusses new approaches for treating difficult-to-heal wounds helps clinicians correct chronic wounds more quickly by treating the cause of the patient's non-healing wound and applying evidence-based, medical and surgical techniques
• provides an in-depth history of surgical wound care and proposes a new classification system for debrievement of both chronic and acute wounds
• outlines how to obtain a surgically clean wound in preparation for surgical closure

Contents

1. The Physiology of Wound Bed Preparation
2. The Evolution and Role of Surgery in Wound Bed
3. Surgical Management in Wound Bacteria
4. Tangential Excision in Burn Surgery
5. Debridement of Pediatric Burns
6. Surgical Management of Fascitis
7. Debridement of Open Fractures
8. Debridement of Acute Traumatic Wounds
9. Outpatient Debridement of Vascular Leg Ulcers
10. Surgical Debridement of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
11. Debridement of Infected Orthopedic Prostheses
12. Debridement of Surgical Wounds
13. Debridement of Decutitus Ulcers
14. Wound Preparation for Reconstructive Intervention

Index

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