Chronic Wounds
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
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
Herausgeber*innen / 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
