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ABC of Wound Healing, Second Edition ABC of Wound Healing is a practical, highly illustrated guide to assessment, diagnosis and management of all common types of acute and chronic wounds. This concise yet comprehensive reference covers all essential aspects of wound healing care, including epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, treatment, long-term management, and prevention This revised second edition contains several new chapters on lymphoedema, nutrition, skin care, continence, and scarring. Updated and expanded chapters cover a wider range of devices and therapies, and discuss additional factors that impact wound healing processes, offering new clinical photographs as a visual guide. Applying a multidisciplinary approach to the provision of wound care, ABC of Wound Healing: Covers common wounds including traumatic wounds, surgical wounds, diabetic foot ulcers, pressure injuries, and venous and arterial leg ulcers Emphasises the importance of reaching a diagnosis, the fundamental step in managing any wound Provides up-to-date information on physical, chemical, biological and emerging therapies for patients with various types of wounds Contains hundreds of full-colour illustrations and clinical photographs of wounds and treatments ABC of Wound Healing, Second Edition, remains a must-have guide for junior doctors, specialist registrars in medicine and surgery, specialist nurses, general practitioners and medical students.

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Annie Price, Specialist Registrar in Rehabilitation Medicine, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK. Joseph E. Grey, Consultant Physician, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK. Girish K. Patel, Consultant Dermatologist, Welsh Institute of Dermatology, Cardiff, and Honorary Professor, Cardiff University School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK. Keith G. Harding CBE, Medical Director of the Welsh Wound Innovation Centre, Pontyclun, UK; Honorary Consultant in Wound Healing, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK; Professor of Wound Healing Research, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK; and Senior Clinical Research Director, Skin Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore.

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