Wounds and Lacerations: Emergency Care and Closure

by Alexander T. Trott MD

Overview

With Wounds and Lacerations: Emergency Care and Closure, you'll get clear, concise guidance on the latest techniques and strategies for treating lacerations, wounds, and burns. This medical reference book will help you optimize every aspect of patient care based on current literature and guidelines.

• Expedite review and reference with a bulleted "Key Practice Points" section at the beginning of each chapter.
• Quickly reference the latest recommendations for tetanus and rabies prophylaxis.

• Implement the latest approaches for the use of ultrasound in foreign-body detection and removal; use of absorbable sutures on the face and hand; approaching complicated infections such as MRSA; managing chronic wounds seen in elderly and diabetic patients; applying new suture techniques and materials for pediatric patients; and updated recommendations for tetanus and rabies prophylaxis.
• Get step-by-step visual guidance on all aspects of wound care through more than 300 detailed line drawings and photographs showing techniques for wound assessment, irrigation, closure, wound dressing, foreign body removal, administration of local anesthesia, and follow-up care.
• Quickly find all the relevant information necessary to treat patients with material that focuses only on injuries that are handled by emergency physicians.
• On the scene or at the hospital, search the complete contents online at expertconsult.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323091329
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	04/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Trott, Alexander T., MD (Univ of Cincinnati)

Both contributors are from the department of pediatrics at Univ of Cincinnati.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Emergency Wound Care: An Overview CHAPTER 2 Patient Evaluation and Wound Assessment CHAPTER 3 Anatomy of Wound Repair CHAPTER 4 Wound Healing and Cosmetic Outcome CHAPTER 5 Wound Care and the Pediatric Patient CHAPTER 6 Infiltration and Nerve Block Anesthesia CHAPTER 7 Wound Cleansing and Irrigation CHAPTER 8 Instruments, Suture Materials, and Closure Choices CHAPTER 9 Decisions before Closure: Timing, Débridement, and Consultation CHAPTER 10 Basic Laceration Repair: Principles and Techniques CHAPTER 11 Complex Skin Wounds: Advanced Repair Techniques CHAPTER 12 Special Anatomic Sites CHAPTER 13 The Hand Chapter 14 Tissue Adhesives and Alternative Wound Closure CHAPTER 15 Bite Wounds CHAPTER 16 Common Wound Care Problems CHAPTER 17 Minor Thermal Burns CHAPTER 18 Cutaneous and Superficial Abscesses CHAPTER 19 Complicated, Chronic, and Aging Skin Wounds CHAPTER 20 Wound Dressing and Bandaging Techniques CHAPTER 21 Tetanus Immunity and Antibiotic Wound Prophylaxis CHAPTER 22 Suture Removal and Wound Aftercare

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

This second edition book on wounds and lacerations is quite well organized, a strength shared by the prior edition. The editor has provided indexed citations in the text and references are provided at the end of each chapter. There are many references cited between 1990 and 1995. However, quite a few references still date prior to 1990. The editor's primary objective with this new edition is to incorporate new scientific and clinical advances in emergency wound care. This new edition, he asserts, better reflects scientific investigation, including recent advances in our understanding of wound care. This very readable text appears well suited for advanced practitioners as well as residents and medical students. Dr. Trott is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, a well-regarded teaching center in emergency medicine, making him well qualified for authorship. The book has two new chapters, one on caring for the pediatric patient and another on cutaneous abscesses. In addition, there is a new section on cyanoacrylate wound adhesives. This edition also features more and higher quality illustrations than its predecessor, including many photographs illustrating nerve blocks. This is an important text in the emergency medicine literature. Although many of the chapters of the first edition were perhaps a bit too basic, this new edition makes a significantly improved effort to cite the scientific literature and contains many novel recommendations based on new data. It represents a welcome and authoritative addition to the emergency medicine literature.

Jeffrey L. Mesuk

An up-to-date source of the principles and techniques of emergency wound care for medical personnel actively caring for emergency wounds or in training to do so. Addresses general wound-care fundamentals, basic and advanced techniques, and specific problems including lacerations, bite wounds, rabies exposure, abrasions, soft-tissue foreign bodies, burns, and disorders of the fingertip. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Reviewer: Jeffrey L. Mesuk, MD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description: This second edition book on wounds and lacerations is quite well organized, a strength shared by the prior edition. The editor has provided indexed citations in the text and references are provided at the end of each chapter. There are many references cited between 1990 and 1995. However, quite a few references still date prior to 1990.
Purpose: The editor's primary objective with this new edition is to incorporate new scientific and clinical advances in emergency wound care. This new edition, he asserts, better reflects scientific investigation, including recent advances in our understanding of wound care.
Audience: This very readable text appears well suited for advanced practitioners as well as residents and medical students. Dr. Trott is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, a well-regarded teaching center in emergency medicine, making him well qualified for authorship.
Features: The book has two new chapters, one on caring for the pediatric patient and another on cutaneous abscesses. In addition, there is a new section on cyanoacrylate wound adhesives. This edition also features more and higher quality illustrations than its predecessor, including many photographs illustrating nerve blocks.
Assessment: This is an important text in the emergency medicine literature. Although many of the chapters of the first edition were perhaps a bit too basic, this new edition makes a significantly improved effort to cite the scientific literature and contains many novel recommendations based on new data. It represents a welcome and authoritative addition to the emergency medicine literature.

Doody's Review Service