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 Honey: A Modern Wound Management Product
Edited by R J White, R A Cooper, P Molan
Sponsored by Advancis Medical
ISBN: 0-9549193-0-0
Publication April 2005 Price: £24.99 plus p&p (Club Wounds UK members £19.99 plus p&p) |
This edited collection of chapters on modern honey usage in wound care includes reviews of the underlying science and clinical evidence to date. Also included are chapters on personal clinical experience from a number of well-known practitioners. This book is aimed at all those involved in wound management on a regular basis: nurses, physicians and surgeons, podiatrists and so on. The clinical evidence for the use of honey in wound management is steadily accumulating and, with the advent of various forms of manufactured honey dressings currently commercially available, or being developed, the flow of evidence will continue. Whilst the evidence pre-2000 was on generic honeys, more recent research has been focussed on the sterile Medical grade honey products intended specifically for wound management. These products have been designed to overcome many of the problems of messiness and difficulty of handling, making honey-based products as convenient to use as the more familiar modern wound dressings. Some involve the combination of honey with a modern dressing such as alginate or sheet hydrogel. Others present honey as a tubed formulation of amorphous gel or of ointment. This brings the most ancient form of wound dressing known into the realms of the most modern - an easy-to-use, bioactive dressing that provides a moist healing environment, with the advantage of having within a single product a range of actions (debriding, deodorising, antibacterial, growth-promoting, anti-inflammatory, and scar-minimising) usually available only individually in a range of products. These attributes will, no doubt, be shown to be cost-effective in future clinical research. In the meantime this book serves as the single, most comprehensive collection of data on honey extant.
'This is a pertinent and topical book as the current re-interest in this ancient form of wound dressings is leading practitioners to review the evidence that will inform their practice. ... an informative text that would be suitable to read by all healthcare practitioners involved in wound management.'
J Community Nursing 21(7)
Price: £24.99 plus p&p (Club Wounds UK members £19.99 plus p&p)
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