Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to C E Cavanaugh.
Assessment of the home care patient with a wound is critical to the planning and evaluation of care. This article presents the components of a comprehensive assessment that can be used as a guide to assessment of a patient with a wound. Topics include collection of a baseline history and physical examination, wound assessment, treatment plan and documentation, wound care orders, and follow-up visits.
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The care of the trauma patient is a challenge to orthopaedic nurses. It is important to be aware of the newer techniques that can be used to provide optimum benefit in reconstruction of soft tissue injuries that frequently accompany a skeletal injury of the extremities following trauma. This article focuses on the nursing care of the trauma patient requiring microvascular muscle and musculocutaneous transplants to reconstruct soft tissue injuries posttrauma.