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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1. Best book ever! Very helpful in reviewing for my exam! Breaks everything down into simple, to the point explanations! Easy to read!!!!

2. The book was very thorough. I like the practice points boxes. Good coverage for all Wound Care Clinicians, RN’s, PT’s, MD’s. I used this bood as a Study Guide to pass the CWS.

3. This book has been super helpful throughout my wound care career from starting and not knowing anything to advanced training and specific alternatives. Very happy with my purchase.

4. I am a caregiver for my son and I found this book very useful for helping to treat his wound plus keep him wound free. It’s a great resource to have on hand.

5.  Good Basic textbook stuff. Not a quick reference manual, but has plenty of info. Amazon had the best price by far.

6. I have been selected to be a “wound champion” at work. Which means that I am expected to be able to apply what is in this book to patients that are in the hospital with wounds of various etiologies, e.g., diabetic, stasis, pressure, ulcers and other wounds that are proving difficult to heal.

My first choice was the text that the local university uses for its wound certification course. It cost three times as much as this book. So, even though I will probably take the course next year, I intend to buy that book used.

I read the descriptions for previous editions and reviews of “Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles (Baraonski, Wound Care Essentials) [Paperback]” liked what I read and decided upon buying this latest edition.

I am still in the early chapters but what I have covered thus far impresses me.

I am pleased with my selection and if I encounter any reason to find fault, I will amend my review.

I almost forgot, it was shipped and received in a timely manner and in perfect condition.

Book Description

This essential clinical reference in the specialty of wound care is the go-to guide for Registered Nurses, Physical Therapists,  Physicians,  Podiatrists,  Long Term Care professionals and others shouldering the responsibility of finding effective solutions in treating both common and atypical wound problems.

Written by renowned wound care experts Sharon Baranoski and Elizabeth Ayello, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of experts, this handbook  covers all aspects of wound assessment, treatment, and care. It also covers topics that other text-references do not, including sickle cell wounds, atypical wounds, and an entire chapter devoted to special populations.

The book is divided into two parts. The first is Wound Care Concepts, which provides in-depth information on need-to-know topics, including assessment, wound healing, treatment options, pain management, and much more. The second section, Wound Classification and Management Strategies, covers the various types of wounds – including wounds such as pressure ulcers, arterial ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, surgical wounds, and many others – and provides the strategies for their successful care.

In addition, the third edition offers these new features:

A separate chapter on tubes, drains, fistulas, and peristomal skin management

A separate chapter on the pediatric patient

A chapter devoted to special populations, including the intensive care, spinal cord injury, and HIV/AIDS populations.

More case studies to help illustrate the best approaches to wound care

More color photos than ever before

It also provides useful features to help the user better understand and utilize this valuable wound care information, including:

Assessment Guidelines

Chapter Objectives

Chapter References

Chapter Summaries

Evidence-Based Practice feature

Practice Points feature

Show What You Know review questions

When it comes to providing the best care for patients, Wound Care Essentials is the gold standard.  All health care professionals will benefit from the wealth of information, up-to-date techniques and best practices Baranoski and Ayello provide for the very important, complex responsibility of wound care.
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Editorial Reviews

STUDENT QUOTES

“The important details are highlighted, preventing the reader from getting bogged down in boring, unimportant text.”
“I thought it was an outstanding overview of difficult material”.

From the Back Cover

This book is one of five in the Blueprints Series. This title presents the principles of Surgery in a succinct format that complements the structure of the USMLE Step 2 exam. It can be used as a stand-alone text for the Surgery clinical rotation, or in conjunction with other titles in the series for a comprehensive review for the USMLE Step 2 & 3 exams. The second edition of this book will include 125 clinical vignette style questions at the end of the book.

The series format is consistent for all five titles; each title presents short expositions on one of the five key clinical topics.

Book Description

Part of the Blueprints series, Blueprints Surgery provides a concise review of what students need to know in their surgery rotations or the Boards. Each chapter is brief and includes pedagogical features such as bolded key words, tables, figures, and key points boxes. This edition has been thoroughly updated and significantly expanded, with more detail and depth of coverage, additional tables and figures, and case studies. A question-and-answer section at the end of the book includes 100 board-format questions with complete rationales for each answer choice.

A companion website includes a question bank containing an additional 50 questions and fully searchable text.
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This book provides a unique visual and comprehensive approach to intra-operative technical errors and covers identification, consequences, repair and prevention of those errors. Detailed analyses of all reported complications for more than 80 major operations help you minimize the risk of errors in surgical procedures ranging from general, thoracic, vascular, and pediatric…to colorectal, endocrine, breast and trauma. A practical approach provides you with the essential guidance you need to make the best clinical decisions.

Offers in-depth guidance on the prevention, management, and consequences of complications and pitfalls that occur before, during, and after surgery-all in one convenient resource.

Organizes sections according to area of surgery for fast reference.

Features a templated outline for specific procedures, allowing you to quickly review the associated pitfalls.

Presents over 800 illustrations-including full-color intraoperative and postoperative photos-which enable you to follow the progression of a surgery and watch out for “problem areas,” while color line drawings help you visualize complex procedures.
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First Prize (Surgery category), BMA Awards 2005. A comprehensive and attractively presented 4-colour textbook of surgery aimed primarily at medical students but also of use to junior doctors and surgical technicians. The book has two key features: firstly, it provides students with coverage of every aspect of surgery; secondly, it has been designed and written to be the ‘surgical companion’ to Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine. This new edition will also offer an online version to all purchasers of the book – the first surgical textbook in the UK to make an electronic version available.

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A comprehensive account of surgery – students only need to buy one text

Covers general issues – wound healing, pain control, etc – in the first section – by grouping these issues into one section at the beginning, students are immediately given an overview of what makes surgery ‘different’

A regional approach is adopted for the largest section – section 2 – this is the classic way in which surgeons talk about surgery to each other

The third section covers surgical specialities – paediatrics, endocrinology, urology – and also includes specialities such as ophthalmology, ENT and orthopaedics – these are the chapters that are often omitted from competing books , in the interests of saving space

The logical arrangement of the three sections makes the book easy to use and refer to in clinical practice

The arrangement of contents is straightforward and conventional – a ‘plus’ in comparison to other texts which can be somewhat idiosyncratic in their approach

Information and practical boxes are used throughout to enhance the text and highlight and isolate important information

Includes approximately 240 four-colour line drawings – these drawings are original to the have been greatly praised by students

Also includes over 100 black and white and approximately 50 full-colour clinical photographs, x-rays and scans

Designed to complement Kumar and Clark’s highly successful Clinical Medicine textbook – students like having two ‘matching’ texts in these complementary areas

Written by an expert team of contributors from all the major London teaching hospitals and many other major centres in the UK – the contributor team lends authority to the text

Now comes with access to online version to all purchasers of the book – the first UK surgical textbook to make this facility available to readers

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