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Pressure Injuries Among Critical Care Patients, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 32-4 - November 11, 2020
- Editor: Jenny G. Alderden
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 5 7 0 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 5 7 0 8 - 9
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… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAlong 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.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development Among Critical Care Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- The etiologic basis for pressure injury development
- Pressure injury risk assessment in the intensive care unit
- Empirically derived pressure injury risk factors
- Intrinsic risk factors
- Extrinsic risk factors
- Discussion
- Summary
- Best Practice in Pressure Injury Prevention Among Critical Care Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background: pressure injury stages
- Pressure injury risk assessment
- Preventive interventions
- Summary
- Additional resources
- Best Practices in Pressure Injury Treatment
- Key points
- Introduction
- Team composition
- Pressure injury treatment
- Support surface selection
- Summary
- Pressure Injury Prevention and Treatment in Critically Ill Children
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Prevention interventions
- Treatment
- Summary
- Medical Device–Related Pressure Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Respiratory devices
- Tubes/drains
- Compression wraps/splints/braces
- Medical device–related pressure injury prevention strategies
- Summary
- Unstageable Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes Among Critical Care Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical presentation
- Treatment of unstageable pressure injuries
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Deep Tissue Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes Among Critical Care Patients
- Key points
- Deep tissue pressure injury
- Definition and presentation of deep tissue pressure injury
- Risk and prevalence of pressure injury in the critically ill
- The natural history of deep tissue pressure injury
- Pathophysiology of deep tissue pressure injury
- Presentation of deep tissue pressure injury
- Differential diagnosis of deep tissue pressure injury
- Determining presence on admission
- Prevention and treatment of deep tissue pressure injury
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Pressure Injuries Among Critical Care Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Nutrition and risk for developing pressure injuries
- Malnutrition and pressure injuries
- Wound healing phases and nutrition
- Role of nutrients in pressure injury prevention and treatment
- Nutrition screening
- Nutrition assessment
- Nutrition interventions
- Individualized care plan
- Practice points
- Heel Pressure Injuries in the Adult Critical Care Population
- Key points
- Introduction
- The anatomy of the heel
- Heel pressure injuries in the critical care setting
- Heel pressure injury risk factors
- Heel pressure injury prevention strategies
- Heel pressure injury prevention enabler
- Treatment of Heel Pressure Injuries
- Summary
- Pressure Injury Prevention Considerations for Older Adults
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pressure injury definition and staging
- Pathophysiology of pressure injury
- Discussion
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 32-4
- Published: November 11, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323757072
- eBook ISBN: 9780323757089
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Jenny G. Alderden
Affiliations and expertise
University of Utah School of Medicine,