Full Description
Caring for patients with vascular disease has always been a challenging and complex area of care for both nurses and other healthcare professionals. In the past, patients with vascular disease were cared for under the umbrella of ?general surgery?. There is now a clearer understanding of the need to provide specialist nursing to meet the needs of vascular patients. This book addresses all aspects of care and management for different vascular conditions and stages of the disease process that the nurse will encounter. Guidance is given in dealing with some of the very challenging aspects of vascular nursing such as pressure sore prevention, pain and wound management, as well as palliative care provision for patients with end stage vascular disease. It will help nurses and other healthcare professionals involved in caring for vascular patients to update and expand their knowledge of developments in conservative, radiological and surgical aspects of care. Shelagh Murray has drawn together the work of specialists who are experts within their field of practice, and the book covers all aspects of vascular nursing. Contents:
Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Chapter 1 Anatomy and Physiology of the Vascular System 1
Soraya Jones
Chapter 2 Aetiology and Pathology of Vascular Disease 32
Lindsey J. Okenden
Chapter 3 Promoting Health in Vascular Nursing 69
Belinda Litchfield
Chapter 4 Assessment of Patients with Vascular Disease 96
Nicola Stubbing and Janet Chesworth
Chapter 5 Challenges of Pressures Ulcer Prevention in Peripheral Vascular Disease 137
Krzysztof S. Gebhardt
Chapter 6 Pain Management in Vascular Disease 150
Lyn Ward
Chapter 7 Venous Disorders 168
Kathryn Vowden and Peter Vowden
Chapter 8 Leg Ulcers 200
Christine Moffatt
Chapter 9 Chronic Ischaemia 238
Shelagh Murray
Chapter 10 Critical Limb Ischaemia 270
Carolyn Nocton
Chapter 11 Lower Limb Amputation 313
Samantha Donohue and Penny Sutton-Woods
Chapter 12 Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair 343
Frances Collins
Chapter 13 Carotoid Disease 369
Jill Arthur
Chapter 14 Wound Care in Vascular Disease 386
Jane Holden
Chapter 15 Palliative Care Provision for Vascular Patients 420
Louise M. Wilson
Index 429