| Overview: acute and chronic wounds / Joanne D. Whitney -- Microbiology of chronic leg and pressure ulcers / John R. Ebright -- Dressings and more / Dorothy Doughty -- Wound debridement / Janice M. Beitz -- Support surfaces / Dianne Mackey -- Facilitating positive outcomes in older adults with wounds / Nancy A. Stotts and Harriet W. Hopf -- Wound care at end of life / Stephanie Myers Schim and Bernadette Cullen -- Wound care issues in the patient with cancer / Mary A. Gerlach -- The challenges of obesity and skin integrity / Susan Gallagher -- Spinal cord injury and pressure ulcers / Maria Helena Larcher Caliri -- Injection drug use and wound care / Barbara Pieper and John A. Hopper -- Pressure ulcers: the great insult / JoAnn Maklebust -- Lower extremity arterial and venous ulcers / Mary Sieggreen. |