Pressure sores : clinical practice and scientific approach
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Pressure sores : clinical practice and scientific approach
Macmillan Press, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This collection of papers covers the scientific analysis, cause, prevention and treatment of pressure sores in health care. The book is aimed at clinicians, paramedics, nurses and biomedical engineers. Preventive measures are emphasized throughout, and the clinical problems and technical solutions to monitor subjects at risk are discussed from a number of viewpoints.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- R.B.Duthie - PART 1 CLINICAL ASPECTS OF PRESSURE SORES - The Importance of Pressure Sores in Total Health Care
- J.Robertson, I.Swain & I.Gaywood - Pathogenesis of Pressure Sores
- J.T.Scales - Pressure Sores: Clinical Aspects of their Cost, Causation and Prevention
- B.Livesey - The Economics of Pressure Sore Prevention
- P.Hibbs - Current Management for the Prevention of Pressure Sores
- R.A.Crow & M.Clark - PART 2 EXPERIENCES IN VARIOUS CLINICAL DISCIPLINES - Orthopaedics
- C.Bulstrode - Geriatric Medicine
- M.Bliss - The Severely Disabled
- G.Cochrane - Spinal Injury
- J.R.Silver - Reconstructive Surgery
- C.Khoo & B.Bailey - PART 3 SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF PRESSURE SORES - Cellular Responses to Tissue Distortion
- T.J.Ryan - Microvascular Mechanisms in Stasis and Ischaemia
- C.C.Michel & H.Gillott - The Metabolic Basis of Wound Healing
- A.W.Goode - Biomechanics of Tissue Distortion and Stiffness by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- S.Reger, T.M.F.McGovern & Kao Chi Chung - The Effects of Compressive Loading Regimens on Tissue Viability
- D.L.Bader - Effects of Mechanical Stresses on Lymph and Interstitial Fluid Flows
- N.P.Reddy - PART 4 TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS FOR PATIENT MONITORING - Ischial Pressure Distortion Under The Seated Person
- D.L.Bader & M.B.Hawken - Pressure Management and the Recumbent Person
- T.A.Krouskop, S.L.Garber & P.Noble - Movement Studies During Sleep
- J.C.Barbenel - Remote Monitoring of Wheelchair Sitting Behaviour
- M.W.Ferguson-Pell et al - Index
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