Book Title: Wound Care Nursing
Chapter 8: Trauma
Overview:
- Includes exemplary first aid advice in the treatment of a traumatic wound
- Explains gun-shot, crush and penetrating injuries and how to manage them
- Covers degloving injuries
- Includes a tabulated summary for the classification of skin-tear wounds
Description:
Because the skin has a protective function, it is always at risk of physical injury from trauma. Traumatic injuries include contusions, abrasions, tears, incisions, lacerations, punctures and penetrating injuries, thermal wounds, degloving and avulsion injuries, and crush injuries. This chapter provides a unique discussion surrounding the care of these traumatic wounds.
Topics:
- First aid
- Assessment
- Amputation
- Foreign bodies
- Haemorrhage
- Cleansing
- Dressings
- Gunshot wounds
- Penetrating injuries
- Crush injuries
- Degloving injuries
- Skin tears
- Haemostasis and wound cleansing
- Preservation of skin flap
- Promotion of moist wound healing
- Prevention of infection
- Protection from further injury
Speaker / Author:
Pam Morey
has been a clinical nurse consultant in wound management at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (Perth, Western Australia) for the past eight years. Her background includes 12 years working in plastic and orthopaedic surgery—including emergency, elective, and reconstructive surgery. She holds a certificate in stomal therapy and a postgraduate diploma in clinical specialisation. She has recently registered to practise as a nurse practitioner and is completing a master’s degree. Pam’s areas of interest include all wound types—particularly complex and challenging wounds, skin tears, leg ulcers, and pressure-ulcer prevention and management. She has been involved extensively in wound-care education within the hospital setting as part of her professional affiliations. Pam is the vicepresident of the Western Australian Wound Care Association and state representative to the Australian Wound Management Association. She won the Western Australian Nursing Board Nursing Excellence awards for Metropolitan Acute Care Nurse and Nurse of the Year in 2003.
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