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This Fast Facts will assist with improving outcomes for patients with pressure ulcers and strategies for decreasing pressure ulcer occurrence within a facility. Using the easy to read, quick-access Fast Facts style, the book presents guidelines for assessing, preventing, and treating pressure ulcers, for establishing an ulcer reduction program, and for increasing reimbursement. It includes tips for care in the Fast Facts in a Nutshell feature format. Pressure ulcers can be devastating not only for the patient but those caring for them. Sometimes with even the best of care, pressure ulcers occu

Bedsores --- Bed-sores --- Decubiti --- Decubitus ulcers --- Pressure sores --- Pressure ulcers --- Ulcers --- Treatment. --- Nursing.

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Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians is a resource primarily aimed at physicians interested in the fundamentals of wound care. This book is written for geriatricians, internists, general practitioners, residents and fellows who treat older patients. Unlike other wound texts on the market, the book addresses the specific issues of wound prevention and management in older individuals. The text emphasizes proper documentation and elements of the team care process. There is up to date information on skin changes a the end of life and the concept of unavoidability. Chapters are written by experts in their fields and  include such evolving topics as deep tissue injury and the newer support surface technologies.

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This abundantly illustrated guide, based on work at the renowned Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, describes and depicts operative techniques for the treatment of the devastating wounds caused by pressure ulcers. Comprehensive information is provided on the surgical anatomy and the variety of wounds that may be encountered. In addition, interventions in patients with complicated ulcers are discussed. Pressure ulcer is a topic of growing importance in the fields of plastic surgery, surgical education, and physical therapy – and also has important psychosocial, medicolegal, and cost management implications. Readers will find Reconstructive Plastic Surgery of Pressure Ulcer to be an ideal aid to appropriate selection of flap surgery in the individual patient. It will help in the achievement of satisfactory outcomes and will especially assist surgeons who lack the requisite specialized training and experience.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Plastic Surgery. --- General Surgery. --- Orthopedics. --- Neurosurgery. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Rehabilitation Medicine. --- Medicine. --- Geriatrics. --- Rehabilitation. --- Surgery. --- Médecine --- Gériatrie --- Orthopédie --- Réadaptation --- Chirurgie --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Plastic Surgery --- Bedsores --- Surgery, Plastic. --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Bed-sores --- Decubiti --- Decubitus ulcers --- Pressure sores --- Pressure ulcers --- Rehabilitation medicine. --- Plastic surgery. --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Ulcers --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Older people --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Surgery, Primitive --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Medicine, Rehabilitation --- Rehabilitation medicine --- Rehabilitation --- Medicine, Physical

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Pressure Ulcer. --- Wound Healing. --- Wounds and Injuries. --- Injuries and Wounds --- Injuries, Wounds --- Research-Related Injuries --- Wounds --- Wounds and Injury --- Wounds, Injury --- Injuries --- Trauma --- Injuries, Research-Related --- Injury --- Injury and Wounds --- Injury, Research-Related --- Research Related Injuries --- Research-Related Injury --- Traumas --- Wound --- First Aid --- Traumatology --- Healing, Wound --- Healings, Wound --- Wound Healings --- Regeneration --- Bed Sores --- Bedsore --- Decubitus Ulcer --- Pressure Sore --- Bed Sore --- Bedsores --- Decubitus Ulcers --- Pressure Sores --- Pressure Ulcers --- Sore, Bed --- Sore, Pressure --- Sores, Bed --- Sores, Pressure --- Ulcer, Decubitus --- Ulcer, Pressure --- Ulcers, Decubitus --- Ulcers, Pressure --- Periodicals --- Health Sciences --- Dermatology --- Emergency Medicine and Critical Care --- General and Others --- Medical Education, Training & Research --- Public health --- Pressure Ulcer --- Wound Healing --- Wounds and Injuries --- Human medicine

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This updated volume provides the current knowledge on the diagnosis, treatment, management, and prevention of pressure ulcers. Chapters on the early detection of pressure ulcers, negative pressure therapy, pressure ulcers in pediatric patients, adjunctive therapies, surgical management of pressure ulcers, and innovation in pressure ulcer research and practice are included. This second edition aims to be the primary reference for pressure ulcers from diagnosis and prevention to management and treatment options. The book is relevant to dermatology clinicians, vascular surgeons, and dermatology nurses.

Bedsores. --- Pressure ulcer management. --- Bed-sores --- Decubiti --- Decubitus ulcers --- Pressure sores --- Pressure ulcers --- Ulcers --- Dermatology. --- Surgery. --- Vascular Surgery. --- Diabetes. --- Nursing. --- Plastic Surgery. --- Clinical nursing --- Nurses and nursing --- Nursing process --- Care of the sick --- Medicine --- Brittle diabetes --- Diabetes mellitus --- IDDM (Disease) --- Insulin-dependent diabetes --- Ketosis prone diabetes --- Type 1 diabetes --- Carbohydrate intolerance --- Endocrine glands --- Diabetic acidosis --- Glycosylated hemoglobin --- Vascular surgery --- Surgery, Primitive --- Skin --- Diseases --- Plastic surgery. --- Vascular surgery. --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons