Pressure Injuries Among Critical Care Patients, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

Along with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Dr. Jenny Alderden has assembled an expert author list to contribute clinical reviews on best practices for improving outcomes in and prevention of pressure injuries. Articles are specifically devoted to the following topics: Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development among Critical Care Patients; Best Practice in Pressure Injury Prevention among Critical Care Patients; Best Practices in Pressure Injury Treatment; Pressure Injury Prevention and Treatment in Critically Ill Children; Medical Device-Related Pressure Injuries; Unstageable Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; Deep Tissue Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Injury Prevention and Healing; and Heel Pressure Injuries in the Adult Critical Care Population; Pressure Injury Prevention Considerations for Older Adults. Readers will come away with best practices for improving pressure injury outcomes in critical care patients.

Product details

• Authors: Alderden, Jenny G. Alderden
• Assisted by: Jenny G Alderden (Editor), Jenny G. Alderden (Editor), Jenny G. Alderden (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780323757072
• ISBN: 978-0-323-75707-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: The Clinics: Nursing; Clinics: Nursing, Volume 32-4
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care, Intensive care nursing