Wound Care: A Collaborative Practice Manual

Being a disabled vet with a spinal cord injury, I have to be as educated as I can get on my condition or I'll either loss a limb, internal organ, or worse die. This book has got to be the "best" book I've found since the "Handbook on Peripheral Neuropathy" by Mark Bromberg. The cover says for Therapists and Nurses; but on the contrary, the material is very easy to understand and has many, many actual color pictures of patients with different levels of wound stages. It is very graphic. IF YOU HAVE PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY OR DIABETIC SYMPTOMS...BUY THIS! You do not want the information from pamphlets obtained at the doctor's office. This book will help you to save toes, feet, and legs. This book covers preventative care, early diagnosis, cleaning, bandaging, drainage, to severe loss stage. It was a definite WAKE-UP call to me to manage my neuropathy in my legs better. I was never told I was in stage 2 or to expect some of the things I saw in the book and I'm going very good doctors in a large city. I'd wish they'd scared me with the information I found in this book. This book provides very good information on how to manage ulcerations to prevent them from becoming something more severe. VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

As a Physical Therapist and head of a rural health consortium's wound management team, I found this to be an invaluable tool for assesment, planning, monitoring and reimbursement. I feel this is the best clinical resource currently available for PTs.

if you're looking for wound care decision pathways, protocols, documentation guidelines and how-to instructions on basic dressing change type wound care - then this is the book for you. the book's shortcomings are an almost complete lack of specificity on therapeutic interventions such as debridement techniques designed to activate certain tissue processes, and a wordy superficiality in most of the text. not a text for physicians or experienced clinicians looking for sophisticated interventions. a good comprehensive guide for beginners

This is a great reference for pressure ulcers, surgical wounds, vascular ulcers, and management of neuropathies. I found the title misleading because I expected it to cover all types of wounds including treatment of fresh lacerations and puncture wounds from accidents. If your looking for information on these last two subjects, this is not the book to use. However, if you care for people with pressure ulcer risk or wounds, diabetic risks, surgical incisions, or venous or arterial ulcers in long term care, rehab, home health, or are a wound care specialist, this reference is the definitive resource. As an RN who works in a multidisciplinary environment with PTs, I found the information on the PT role in wound management collaboration very informative. It actually has a section on managing wound healing with physical therapy technologies such as diathermy, ultrasound, and electrical stimulation to name a few. If you prefer to buy hard cover books for your reference library, don't let the "paperback" disuade you. This book is really a hardback similar in type to school textbooks.