Principles and Practice of Wound Care

Abstract

The editor, Sujata Sarabahi's chapter on 'Scars following Wound Healing' has a classification of scars, describes differences between hypertrophic scars and keloids, talks about the various scales of scar assessment and scar management by surgical and non-surgical means like pressure therapy, silicone gel/sheet, massage, splintage, steroids, inhibitors of gene transfer, flavonoids, lasers, radiations, cryotherapy, intralesional antimetabolites, skin fillers and tattooing. Each chapter describes wounds in unique locations and of unique aetiology. [...]in this section we find chapters on crush injury of limbs, skin avulsion injuries, diabetic foot infections, vascular ulcers, venous ulcers, management of burn wounds, radiation wounds, pressure sores, trophic ulcers on feet, necrotizing fasciitis, bite wounds, malignant wounds, gun-shot wounds, upper and lower limb wounds and foot defects.