Skin Necrosis

This successful book, now Open Access in its second edition, was the first to discuss skin necrosis as a symptom related to a broad range of pathologies. In recent years, wound care has gained increasing recognition as a distinct medical specialty. An understanding of the complex mechanisms involved in wound healing facilitates efficient assessment and treatment of patients with wounds, and skin necrosis can be considered the starting point in the entire healing process.
Richly illustrated, this volume primarily provides therapeutic strategies and treatment algorithms for different clinical contexts, covering topics in distinct part: starting from definitions, physiopathology, vascular and imaging investigations, it then examines skin necrosis in its diverse clinical context, each assigned to a specific part: whether originated from physical injuries, of toxic origin, of medical or infectious nature, the content then shifts from the clinical context to the more specifically surgical context, and the application of existing techniques from dressing to debriding, including sharp and conservative ones. Dedicated sections deal with the pediatric and the elderly patients, closing the volume with a part on debridement education, from the perspective of the nurse and the physician, and finally a chapter on distance skin necrosis management, in the light of e-Health and personalized medicine.
All chapters were written by renowned specialists in their respected fields and include detailed sample cases and essential take-home messages; the topics that require an in-depth approach are extensively covered, whereas clinical chapters are more essential, focusing on practicality. In light of the highly interdisciplinary nature of wound management, this new, updated edition of Skin Necrosis will be a much-valued tool for wound care practitioners and health care professionals across the fields of surgery, dermatology, internal medicine, and nursing.

Luc Téot, MD, PhD, is Professor of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery and Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery, Burns, Wound Healing at Montpellier University Hospital. He has been promoting wound healing and scar management since he founded the French Wound Healing Society in 1995. He was elected president of the European Tissue Repair Society (1998-2000) and then president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (2004-2008). He is also president of the Academy of Wound Technology, and was coordinator of the Scar Club (2006-2017). He has contributed to 12 international books as coeditor, chapter writer or editor, is Editor in Chief and board member to related national and international journals.

Sylvie Meaume, MD, PhD, is specialized in Dermatology and Geriatrics, she is team lead at the Geriatric Unit for Wound and Scarring management, at the Hôpital Rothschild (APHP) in Paris.​ Vice-president of the French and Francophone Society for Wounds and Healing (SFFPC), she is also a Professor at the Sorbonne University and responsible for the University Diploma in Wounds and Scar Management at the Pierre and Marie Curie Faculty of Medicine in Paris. Sylvie Meume is the author of several books intended for all practitioners dealing with wounds, (such as surgeons, dermatologists, vascular doctors, geriatricians, pharmacists and nurses) as well as more than 150 articles in specialized journals indexed on pubmed. She is a key player in the dissemination of knowledge in the medical and scientific environment; among her contributions are countless lectures at congresses and conferences as well as presentations aimed at the general public.

Sadanori Akita is currently Professor of Fukuoka University, Faculty of Medicine and he did his residency in plastic surgery at Nagasaki University Hospital. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Nagasaki University specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He later did a research fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under supervision of Shlomo Melmed MD on a cytokine expression and its regulation in vivo by using a transgenic animal model. He serves as a general secretary of World Union of Wound Healing Societies, which will be held in Yokohama, September 2-6, 2012, and will be president of the world union of wound healing societies, for the years of 2012 to 2016. He is the president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) from September 2012 to September 2016 and currently the president of the Asian Wound Care Association (AWCA). His research interests include: cytokines and stem cells in wound healing, difficult wound healing (radiation injury), regenerative tissue enhancement to HIV-drug related-wasting patients, reconstructive surgery, burn and craniofacial surgery. His list of publications includes 110 peer-reviewed English original articles, 20 English overviews and 25 English-book chapters with 8 editorships of the books and lead the two study sectors funded by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on vascular anomaly and on cybernic medicine.

Veronique del Marmol is Head of the Department of Dermatology at Hospital Erasme, HUB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Skin cancer, inflammatory diseases, wound healing and non-invasive imaging are the main areas of interest for Professor del Marmol. In recognition of her work in these fields, she has been awarded many scholarships and grants, including the Major Roche Dermatology Fundamental Research Award. She authored and co-authored more than 215 137 peer reviewed articles and 7 books (H index 55- 12199 citations) and in particular in Experimental Dermatology, Journal Investigative dermatology, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV), Nature and New England Journal of Medicine. Since 2009 she is leading at the European level the European skin cancer prevention campaign EUROMELANOMA. She is a founding member of European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation and leading the European registry for Hidradenitis suppurativa. She is board member of the European dermatology forum (EDF), the European Academy of Dermato-oncology (EADO), the European Pigment cell society (ESPCR), and chair of the project and fellowship committee (PPRC) at EADV . She is actually president of the Belgian society of dermatology and she is member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine since 2014.

Sebastian Probst is Full Professor of Tissue Viability and Wound Care at the Geneva School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva and the University Hospital of Geneva. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Sebastian Probst began his nursing career in Zurich over 20 years ago, and pursued his Master’s in Nursing Science at the University of Basel and attained his Doctorate in Clinical Practice at the University of Guildford in the U.K., and completed his Post-Doctorate at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He saw that patients with chronic and palliative wounds needed support and guidance to alleviate their wound related symptoms, to prevent recurrences and ultimately to enhance their quality of life. His research contributes to a person-centered care approach to develop best practice wound care, patient education, social support and self-efficacy in wound patients and their families. Prof. Probst actively lectures and mentors Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. students. He has collaborative projects in Switzerland and internationally, and is President of the European Wound Management Association, the Vice-President of the Swiss Association for Wound Care and a Council Member of Wound DACH. In all associations he has leading roles in projects & document development.