TY  - BOOK
AU  - Storch, Jill E.
AU  - Rice, Jan [R.N.]
TI  - Reconstructive plastic surgical nursing : clinical management and wound care
SN  - 1405101652
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford; Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - SURGERY, PLASTIC, methods
KW  - WOUNDS AND INJURIES, nursing
KW  - RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES
KW  - PERIOPERATIVE NURSING, methods
N1  - Reconstructive plastic surgery nursing practice -- A clinical practice framework for modern reconstructive plastic surgical nursing -- Body image issues and reconstructive plastic surgery -- Introduction to wound management within reconstructive plastic surgery nursing practice -- The functional anatomy of the skin and its appendages -- Physiology of the ageing of the skin incorporating an overview of common skin lesions -- Wound bed repair -- Clinical issues in the causes of wound breakdown and the failure of wounds to repair -- Wound bed assessment -- Wound bed preparation incorporating wound dressing and bandage management -- Pain associated with wounds and dresssing changes - principles of patient care -- Wound bed maintenance -- Palliative wound bed management - malignancy and non-malignancy -- Principles of nursing discharge management and community healthcare following reconstructive plastic surgery -- Patient management in the operating theatre --; Perioperative paediatric care in reconstructive plastic surgical nursing -- Skin grafts -- Microsurgery -- Reconstructive skin and soft tissue flaps -- The hand -- Replant surgery -- Tissue expansion -- Craniofacial reconstruction -- Ear reconstruction -- Camouflage prostheses -- Urogenital reconstruction (hypospadias) -- Breast surgery -- Body contouring -- Aesthetic/reconstructive surgery of the face -- Nasal surgery
N2  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Reconstructive Plastic Surgical Nursing is a practical manual for all nurses involved in plastic surgical care. Plastic or reconstructive surgery serves to restore form and function following trauma (accidents, injuries and burns), congenital defects, or illness (cancer and neoplasms, pressure sores, and degenerative illness). Nursing these patients requires specialist training in complex clinical management and specialist wound care. This book is a unique definitive and comprehensive text for nurses providing a practical, highly illustrated guide to plastic surgical care. Definitive, comprehensive text on plastic surgical care. A unique, practical handbook Provides evidence–based guidelines for all aspects of patient care. Explores reconstructive plastic surgical care from head to toe. Illustrated in full colour throughout
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