Measurements in Wound Healing: Science and Practice - Softcover

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SECTION 1.- Vascular diseases and wound healing.- Leg ulcers/role of venous surgery/ stenting/amputation/microcirculation.- Diabetic foot disease and wound healing.- Neuropathic and neuroischaemic foot disease/management/limitations of SW monofilament/bone mineral disease measurements/.- Skin and wound healing.- Lower extremity wounds/pressure ulcers/epidermolysis bullosa/vasculitis.- Nutrition and wound healing.- In pressure ulcers/managing elderly/relevance of measurements.- Musculo Skeletal injuries and wound healing.- Trauma/common defects/measurements and their management.- Nervous system injuries and wound healing.- Lesions in those with spinal defects.- Complications in wound healing.- Infection/biofilms/managing comorbidities and relevant workup.- Epidemiology of wounds.- Lower extremity/diabetic foot/pressure wounds/area measurements and prognosis.- SECTION 2.- Measuring Pressure.- Monofilaments/for gait analysis/for pressure relief.- Non invasive diagnostic measurements.- Vascular, tissue oxygen/areas and volumes.- Imaging measurements in wound healing.- Ultrasound, florescence microscopy/CT/MR.- The promise of measuring hypoxia.- Redox potentials/hypoxia and measurements.- SECTION 3.- Managing burns.- Burn wound management including measurements.- Managing scars.- Measurements to improve scar management.- Developments in scar management.- SECTION 4.- Designing research studies in wound healing.- RCTs/Mechanistic studies.- Modelling in wound healing.- The use of systems biology.- Appendices.- List of Equipment Manufactures.

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