Reconstructive Plastic Surgical Nursing : Clinical Management & Wound Care

Reconstructive plastic surgery nursing practice -- A clinical practice framework for modern reconstructive plastic surgical nursing -- Body image issues and reconstructive plastic surgery -- Primary clinical management definitions -- Itroduction 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 -- Skin lesions : overview -- Wound bed repair (WBR) -- Principal clinical issues in the causes of wound breakdown and the failure of wounds to repair -- Applied nutritional issues in wound bed repair -- Wound bed assessment (WBA) -- Wound bed preparation (WBP) -- principles -- Wound dressings and bandage management : principles -- Pain associated with wounds and dresssing changes : principles of patient care -- Wound bed maintenance (WBM) -- Palliative wound bed management (PWBM-malignant) -- Palliative wound bed management--(PWBM-non-malignant) -- Principles of nursing discharge management and ambulatory care following reconstructive plastic surgery -- Wound management in the home and community healthcare facility following reconstructive surgery -- Peri-operative operating theatre (OT) / Room (OR) patient management : the essentials.;Peri-operative paediatric care in reconstructive plastic surgical nursing : the principles -- Skin grafts -- Microsurgery -- Reconstructive skin and soft tissue flaps -- The hand -- Replant surgery -- Tissue expansion -- Craniofacial reconstruction -- Ear reconstruction -- Camouflage prostheses : anaplastology osseointegration as a reconstructive process -- Urogenital reconstruction (hypospadias) -- Breast surgery : augmentation mammoplasty -- Body contouring : abdominoplasty -- Nasal surgery : rhinoplasty."

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Includes bibliographical references and index.