Wound Dressing Materials: The Essentials

According to the preface of Wound Dressing Materials: The Essentials, there are currently over 2,500 wound dressing-related products registered for use in the Republic of Korea.Since a large portion of these products are actually applied by clinicians who have not been trained or educated as wound care professionals, it falls upon the shoulders of those with expertise in wound care to help their colleagues in determining which kind of dressing is best suited to each different wound.Wound Dressing Materials: The Essentials is a single-volume, 259-page long hardcover compilated by 22 wound experts of the Korean Wound Management Society including plastic surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, burn surgeons and wound, ostomy and continence nurses just for this purpose.Based on the contents of the Korean Wound Management Society's widely successful 2017 Educational Symposium, which was held in September 2017 with the theme "Wound Dressings -Where are we?", Wound Dressing Materials: The Essentials' objective is to provide down-to-earth knowledge and information concerning the choice and use of various dressing materials in real-life clinical settings of the Korean healthcare system -considering not only medical efficacy and safety but also patient comfort and financial compliance, National Health Insurance reimbursement regulations and documentation requirements.Unlike some other publications on wound management, Wound Dressing Materials: The Essentials does not focus on complex theoretical studies or academic basic research, instead aiming to provide practical knowledge that can easily be implemented in clinical practice by presenting the clinical experiences of the authors backed by evidence-based literature reviews.An ample amount of photographs, figures and tables of the various dressing materials available in Korea referred to in the text, along with an abundance of case photographs, helps readers understand and apply the contents of this volume to their clinical practices with ease; the authors have put an emphasis