<p>I The basics</p> <p>1 History of the treatment of chronic wounds</p> <p>2 Current defi nitions and spellings for the treatment of chronic wounds</p> <p>3 Epidemiology</p> <p>4 Evidence and guidelines</p> <p>5 Ethical aspects</p> <p>6 Hygiene</p> <p>7 Physiology and pathology of wound-healing</p> <p>II Disease patterns</p> <p>8 Systematic diagnosis of chronic wounds: the ABCDE rule</p> <p>9 Disease patterns of peripheral artery disease (PAD)</p> <p>10 Disease patterns in diabetes mellitus</p> <p>11 Disease patterns in chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)</p> <p>12 Disease patterns in pressur ulcers13 Disease patterns in burns</p> <p>14 Rare causes of chronic wounds</p> <p>15 Pathological skin changes</p> <p>16 Pathological scars</p> <p>17 Cooling down and wound-healing</p> <p>III Factors which inhibit wound-healing </p> <p>18 Nutrition for patients with chronic wounds</p> <p>19 Disease patterns in oedema, lymphoedema, and lipoedema</p> <p>20 Obesity-associated wound treatment</p> <p>21 Wound care for patients with dementia</p> <p>22 Systematics of wound treatment – the M.O.I.S.T. concept</p> <p>IV Factors which support wound-healing </p> <p>23 Systematic wound treatment – the WundUhr®</p> <p>24 Systematics of debridement</p> <p>25 Systematics of infection control</p> <p>26 Systematics of wound therapeutics</p> <p>27 Systematics of surgical treatment</p> <p>28 Systematics of physical wound treatment</p> <p>29 Systematics of compression therapy</p> <p>30 Systematics of pressure relief</p> <p>31 Systematics of oxygen therapy in wound treatment</p> <p>32 Systematics of physiotherapy</p> <p>33 Skin substitutes</p> <p>34 Systematics of drug therapy</p> <p>35 Special aspects of palliative medicine</p> <p>36 Wound therapy for split skingrafts</p> <p>V Prophylactic measures </p> <p>37 Periwound skin</p> <p>38 Skincare</p> <p>39 Allergy</p> <p>40 Podiatry in patients with foot diseases</p> <p>41 Pain therapy</p> <p>42 Placebo</p> <p>VI Living with a wound </p> <p>43 Body perception</p> <p>44 Health-related quality of life</p> <p>45 Secondary illness gain</p> <p>VII Structures </p> <p>46 Wound documentation</p> <p>47 Requirements in wound management</p> <p>48 Health economics and people-centred wound care</p> <p>Index</p>
