Reconstructive plastic surgical nursing [electronic resource] clinical management and wound care / Jill E. Storch, Jan Rice.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconstructive plastic surgery nursing practice -- A clinical practice framework for modern reconstructive plastic surgical nursing -- Body image issues and reconstructive plastic surgery -- Introduction to wound management within reconstructive plastic surgery nursing practice -- The functional anatomy of the skin and its appendages -- Physiology of the ageing of the skin incorporating an overview of common skin lesions -- Wound bed repair -- Clinical issues in the causes of wound breakdown and the failure of wounds to repair -- Wound bed assessment -- Wound bed preparation incorporating wound dressing and bandage management -- Pain associated with wounds and dresssing changes - principles of patient care -- Wound bed maintenance -- Palliative wound bed management - malignancy and non-malignancy -- Principles of nursing discharge management and community healthcare following reconstructive plastic surgery -- Patient management in the operating theatre --

Perioperative paediatric care in reconstructive plastic surgical nursing -- Skin grafts -- Microsurgery -- Reconstructive skin and soft tissue flaps -- The hand -- Replant surgery -- Tissue expansion -- Craniofacial reconstruction -- Ear reconstruction -- Camouflage prostheses -- Urogenital reconstruction (hypospadias) -- Breast surgery -- Body contouring -- Aesthetic/reconstructive surgery of the face -- Nasal surgery.

Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y. : Ovid Technologies, Inc. Available via World Wide Web.