This pocket-sized guide to debridement for professionals includes techniques ranging from the rapid and expensive to the more progressive and cheap. Meume (gerontology, Hôpital Charles Foix, Paris) and Téot (burns and plastics, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier) describes the basics of mechanical debridement, including through surgery and hydrojet, and autolytic methods such as absorbent dressings, hydrogel, enzymatic methods, and biological methods such as maggots. They explain how to decide when and when not to debride, how to evaluate and work with the shape of the wound, and the types of tissues to debride. They also clearly explain the considerations to take in such etiologies as diabetes, ulcers, and surgical or psychiatric wounds. They include numerous photographs of wounds and treatments. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)