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

I The basics
1 History of the treatment of chronic wounds
2 Current defi nitions and spellings for the treatment of chronic wounds
3 Epidemiology
4 Evidence and guidelines
5 Ethical aspects
6 Hygiene
7 Physiology and pathology of wound-healing
II Disease patterns
8 Systematic diagnosis of chronic wounds: the ABCDE rule
9 Disease patterns of peripheral artery disease (PAD)
10 Disease patterns in diabetes mellitus
11 Disease patterns in chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)
12 Disease patterns in pressur ulcers13 Disease patterns in burns
14 Rare causes of chronic wounds
15 Pathological skin changes
16 Pathological scars
17 Cooling down and wound-healing
III Factors which inhibit wound-healing
18 Nutrition for patients with chronic wounds
19 Disease patterns in oedema, lymphoedema, and lipoedema
20 Obesity-associated wound treatment
21 Wound care for patients with dementia
22 Systematics of wound treatment - the M.O.I.S.T. concept
IV Factors which support wound-healing
23 Systematic wound treatment - the WundUhr®
24 Systematics of debridement
25 Systematics of infection control
26 Systematics of wound therapeutics
27 Systematics of surgical treatment
28 Systematics of physical wound treatment
29 Systematics of compression therapy
30 Systematics of pressure relief
31 Systematics of oxygen therapy in wound treatment
32 Systematics of physiotherapy
33 Skin substitutes
34 Systematics of drug therapy
35 Special aspects of palliative medicine
36 Wound therapy for split skingrafts
V Prophylactic measures
37 Periwound skin
38 Skincare
39 Allergy
40 Podiatry in patients with foot diseases
41 Pain therapy
42 Placebo
VI Living with a wound
43 Body perception
44 Health-related quality of life
45 Secondary illness gain
VII Structures
46 Wound documentation
47 Requirements in wound management
48 Health economics and people-centred wound care
Index