Wounds, intestinal fistulas and ostomies

1. Wound Care
1. Wound Care Information Network Wound descriptions, treatment recommendations, product descriptions and manufacturer links
2. World Wide Wounds is an Internet-only electronic woundcare journal, edited by Dr Steve Thomas and Peter Phillips and a readers' question and answer section
3. UK Wound Management Practice Resource Centre's extensive discussion of wound dressing material selection
4. Wound Care RN/DREXEL Home Study
5. General Principles Caring for Patients with Wounds UK, aimed at general practitioner physicians
6. Maximizing your pressure ulcer care RN/DREXEL Home Study
7. Patient Skin Care And Pressure Ulcer Care (Say No to Topical Duoderm-type Dressings) Manuel Villanueva
8. Chronic Wound Healing Rita A. Frantz PhD RN FAAN, Professor of Nursing, University of Iowa
9. Burn Wound Care
1. Burns and Burn Wound Care Dee Resha RN BSN LNC assisted by Don Hassencahl RN LMT, both of Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee Burn Center
   
2. Burn and Wound Care Guide Mylan Laboratories Inc.
3. Burns RN/DREXEL Home Study
4. Managing Adult Burn Patient www.burnresource.com by Judy Knighton, RN, BScN, MScN
2. Ostomies: Colostomy, Ileostomy, Urostomy
1. Caring for the Ostomy Patient NurseCE.com
2. Ostomy Care RN.com
3. Practical Ostomy Guide RN Web Continuing Nursing Education Drexel University
4. British Journal of Nursing, 1999, Vol 8, No 9, Stoma care: empowering patients through teaching practical skills by Chris Metcalf, Stoma Care Nurse, West Herts Community Health NHS Trust, Watford and Mount Vernon and Watford Hospitals NHS Trust: Watford Hospital. Employed by Securicare Medical Ltd February 1999
5. Continent Ileostomy RN/DREXEL Home Study
6. Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society
7. World Council Enterostomal Therapists
8. Canadian Association for Enterostomal Therapy multiple links, English and French
9. Textbooks
Practical Stoma Wound care and Continence Management by Patricia Blackley, published by Research Publications, 27a Boronia Road Vermont, Australia 3133, available through Ramsey’s Medical Bookshop: 98 Wright Street Adelaide, Australia or as a special order by Australian SPP Books Contains practical solutions for ostomies, leaking drainage and feeding tubes; heavy exudating, acute and chronic wounds; and continence promotion. Ms. Blackley has 20 years experience as a stomal therapy nurse. Recommended by the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists
1. Ostomy Care Broadwell's classic enterostomal therapy text nursing management of ostomies

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5. Intestinal Fistulas
1. British Surgical Tutor on fistulas aimed at surgeons
2. Medscape, free site which requires registration, Complex Enterocutaneous Fistula Case Report from Southern Medical Journal
3. Medscape, free site which requires registration, Complex Enterocutaneous Fistula: Closure With Rectus Abdominis Muscle Flap from Southern Medical Journal
4. Short bowel syndrome diet which may help the patient with a small bowel fistula. This diet is not very tasty, though, so you patients may refuse to follow it
5. A Plumber's Guide to Small Bowel Leaks Management of the Patient with an Enterocutaneous Fistula Sloan S. Bartlett BSN, RN, CWOCN NursingCEU.com
6. Eakin® seals and fistula bag example cases:
1. Management of a Complex Open Abdominal Wound Thinking out of the square! by Maree McKee and Robyn Watson Stomatherapist, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand for Eakin® wound care company
2. Management of a fistula within a wound
3. More individual Eakin® case examples

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7. If you can't keep a trough dressing or wound collector on, Coloplast® Sween® Critic-Aid® paste will stick to even raw excoriated skin. It contains karaya paste, aloe and I think mineral oil, so you cannot stick ostomy or fistula bags or trough dressings to it. It can help excoriated skin heal well enough so that you will be able to apply a pouch or trough dressing. Case study of Critic-Aid® paste to heal excoriated perianal skin
8. Convatec site requires registration: ostomy videos, ostomy brochures, and examples of fistula wound care and care of difficult stomas
   You can reach the fistula pouch product information, though, without registering:
1. Eakin® seals, skin barriers, Eakin® fistula & wound pouches, Wound Manager® fistula pouch for draining wounds, fistulas and difficult or irregular stoma sites
2. Eakin® largest fistula pouch
3. Wound Manager® Sterile Drainage Pouch with Durahesive® Skin Barrier
9. Hollister® Wound Drainage Collectors
10. Coloplast® Assura® One-Piece Post-Op and Wound Management Drainable Pouch
11. Jarvis Haugeberg's clever water-tight connection between ostomy/fistula bags and tubes

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