Synopsis
This textbook is a companion reference book for the Wound Care Certification Study Guide, 2nd Edition. This book belongs in the library of every practitioner who treats chronic wound care patients. It proves to be a valuable text for medical students and all health-care professionals - doctors, podiatrists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, physical and occupational therapists - in various settings. It provides thorough understanding of the evidence-based multi disciplinary approach for caring for patients with different kinds of wounds. This textbook provides the best diagnostic and management information for chronic wound care in conjunction with evidence-based clinical pathways illustrated by case studies and more than 350 pictures in addition to up-to-date information for the challenging chronic wound care problems in an easy-to-understand format. FEATURES Chapters are written by more than 50 well-respected leaders in the specialty of wound care. Balanced evidence-based multidisciplinary approach to chronic wound care. Exclusive key concepts in every chapter for a quick review. Excellent resource for preparation of wound care certification exams with 250 questions and answers. Chapters specifically focused on wound care in different care settings. Chapter on telehealth and wound care addressing the future of chronic wound care. Deep understanding of value-based care in wound care in the United States. Chapter on healthcare payment reform and the wound care practitioner. Separate sections on approach to wound care in various countries globally.
About the Author
Dr. Jayesh B. Shah is President of South Texas Wound Associates, PA, San Antonio, Texas, where he has provided clinical wound care services in San Antonio and the surrounding communities for the past 17 years. He is also President of TIMEO2 Healing Concepts, LLC, in San Antonio, Texas, through which he provides consulting and education services in wound care and hyperbaric medicine both nationally and internationally. His degrees include MBBS from M. S. University, India, and MD in Internal Medicine from St. Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York. He is board certified in internal medicine, board certifi ed in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, certified in wound management, and certified in hyperbaric medicine. He is the past chair of American College of Clinical Wound Specialists, past president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, past chair of American Medical Association, International Medical Graduates Section, 2016 President of the Bexar County Medical Society, and 2017 President of American College of Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Paul J. Sheffield is President, International ATMO, Inc. of San Antonio, Texas, which provides wound care and hyperbaric medicine management, consulting, and education services. Dr. Sheffield began his career as a US Air Force aerospace physiologist, with primary responsibilities in aircrew training, research, and hyperbaric medicine. He was on the original team that established the USAF Hyperbaric Center at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas in 1974 where he was one of the originators of the use of tissue oximetry for wound assessment and patient selection for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. He completed his Air Force career as Chief of Aerospace Physiology at the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General in Washington, DC and retired in the grade of colonel aft er 30 years of military service. He joined International ATMO as Director of Research and Education and eventually became president in 2000. For over 50 years, Dr. Sheffield has been educating physicians, nurses, and technologists in aerospace physiology, undersea and hyperbaric medicine, and wound care. He authored over 145 publications, including 12 book chapters and edited several books, including Proceedings of the XIV International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine (Best Publishing Company), first and second editions of Wound Care Practice (Best Publishing Company), and first and second editions of Wound Care Certification Study Guide (Best Publishing Company). Dr. Caroline E. Fife completed a family medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two-year fellowship in undersea and hyperbaric medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and the Lymphedema Center. She is now a professor of geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the medical director of the CHI St. Luke s Wound Care Clinic in The Woodlands, Texas. She is also the chief medical officer of Intellicure, Inc., a health information technology company, and the executive director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a nonprofit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry.
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