Wound Care Management for the Equine Practitioner

Book excerpt: Wound Care Management is designed to assist the student or practitioner with general wound care in horses. It includes basic wound cleaning and preparation, important anatomical considerations, moist healing concepts, dressing choices, and specific wounds by body region. Detailed sections about wound closure techniques using bandaging and skin grafting provide a wonderful source for these common procedures. In depth discussion of appropriate wound dressing used for cleaning, debridement, packing, absorption, compression, support, and protection. The presentation emphases important anatomical considerations by body regions and organizes this information in an easy to read table. The highly visual format (70 color photos, 100 figures) allows veterinarians to obtain important information quickly. Published by Teton New Media in the USA and distributed by Manson Publishing outside of North America.