Stoma care

Summary: Stoma Care is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for all nurses and health care professionals with an interest in bowel conditions that may lead to stoma formation. It explores the anatomy and physiology of the urinary and gastrointestinal system, and looks at topics including familial adenomatous polyposis, continence issues, nutrition, and conditions leading to stoma formation, complications, fistulae and intestinal failure. It also discusses the role of the nurse in surgery and in pre-and post-operative care.

Record details

ISBN: 9780470722145 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0470722142 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780470031773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xix, 312 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatBulkString:sept.20.12
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Stomas : the past, present, and future / Jennie Burch -- Anatomy and physiology of the urinary and gastrointestinal system / Jennie Burch -- Colorectal cancer and adjunct therapy / Deep Tolia-Shah -- Inflammatory bowel disease / Jennie Burch -- Familial adenomatous polyposis / Jacqui Wright and Kay Neale -- Continence / Julie Duncan and Christine Norton -- Other conditions leading to stoma formation / Jennie Burch -- Surgery / Alistair Windsor and Gemma Conn -- Pre and post-operative care / Steve Wright and Jennie Burch -- Intestinal pouches / Zarah Perry-Woodford -- Urinary diversion / Sharon Fillingham -- Appliances / Jo Sica and Jennie Burch -- Discharge to the community / Jennie Burch -- Nutrition / Morag Pearson -- Complications / Jennie Burch -- Fistulae and intestinal failure / Jennie Burch -- Bowel irrigation / Jennie Burch and Julie Duncan -- Other stoma issues / Jennie Burch.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.