Table of Contents

Part I - Wound Care and Prevention
1. Skin care and wound prevention strategies
2. Assessing and documenting chronic wounds
3. Types of chronic wounds
4. Laboratory values in chronic wound management
5. Developing a skin and wound care formulary
6. Tissue load management
7. Wound care and the regulatory process
Part II - Skin and Wound Care Products
  Skin care products
    Overview
    Antifungals and antimicrobials
    Liquid skin protectants
    Moisture barriers
    Skin cleansers
    Therapeutic moisturizers
  Wound care products
    DRESSING AND DEVICES
    Overview
    Alginates
    Antimicrobials
    Collagens
    Composites
    Contact layers
    Foams
    Hydrocolloids
    Hydrogels
    Specialty absorptives
    Surgical supplies, miscellaneous
    Transparent films
    Wound fillers
    Other products
    DRUGS
    Overview
    Products
Part III - Additional Dressings and Products
    Overview
    Abdominal dressing holders and binders
    Compression bandage systems
    Conforming bandages
    Elastic bandage rolls
    Gauze, impregnated with water or normal saline, without adhesive
    Gauze, nonimpregnated, with adhesive border
    Gauze, nonimpregnated, without adhesive border
    Tapes
    Wound cleansers
Appendices
A. Body mass index
B. Wagner ulcer grade classification
C. Braden scale
D. Treatment algorithm for pressure ulcers
E. Treatment algorithm for arterial ulcers
F. Treatment algorithm for venous ulcers
G. Treatment algorithm for diabetic ulcers
H. Treatment algorithm for diabetic ulcer wound care
I. Laboratory tests to rule out atypical causes of leg ulcers
J. Ankle-brachial index use in patients with diabetes