Handbook of Burns Volume 1: Acute Burn Care

by Marc G. Jeschke (Editor), Lars-Peter Kamolz (Editor), Folke Sjïberg (Editor), Steven E. Wolf (Editor)

Overview

This volume covers the entire spectrum of acute burn treatment. Individual chapters deal with basic aspects of different burn mechanisms as well as the acute care of burn patients. Pre-hospital management, critical care and basic concepts of burn surgery related to the acute phase, as well as the use of skin and skin substitutes in early stages of therapy are addressed in this volume. Chapters on supportive therapies such as optimizing nutrition and fluid homeostasis, infection control and treatment, respiratory support and pain management complete the comprehensive approach to the patient in this early stage of treatment, while chapters on epidemiology, prevention and disaster management enable the reader to evaluate the given information in a broader context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783709119181
Publisher:	Springer Vienna
Publication date:	08/23/2016
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2012
Pages:	493
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marc J. Jeschke, M.D., PhD, FACS, FRCSC

Director, Ross Tilley Burn Center, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;

Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute;

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada

Lars P. Kamolz, M.D., M.Sc.

Section of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

Folke Sjöberg, M.D.

Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery and Intensive Care, Linköping University Hospital, Sweden;

President of European Burns Association

Steven E. Wolf, M.D.

Director of the Burn Center at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA

Table of Contents

List of contributers .- A history of burn care .- Epidemiology and prevention of burns throughout the world .- Prevention of burn injuries .- Burns associated with wars and disasters .- Education in burns .- European practice guidelines for burn care: Minimum level of burn care provision in Europe .- Pre-hospital, fluid and early management, burn wound evaluation .- Medical documentation of burn injuries .- Pathophysiology of burn injury .- Anesthesia for patients with acute burn injuries .-Diagnosis and management of inhalation injury .- Respiratory management .- Organ responses and organ support .- Critical care of thermally injured patient .- Treatment of infection in burns .- Acute treatment of severely burned pediatric patients .- Adult burn management .- Burns in older adults .- Acute management of facial burns .- Hand burns .- Treatment of burns – established and novel Technology .- Wound healing .- Pain management after burn trauma .- Nutrition support for the burn patient .- HBO and burns .- Nursing management of the burn-injured person .- Outpatient burn care .- Electrical injury .- Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of chemical burns .- Necrotizing and exfoliative diseases of the skin .- Frostbite .- Subject index

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“This is the first volume of a two-volume set of books intended to be a comprehensive reference for burn injury and related problems managed in burn centers. It provides a state-of-the-art presentation on early burn management. Senior trainees and practitioners in general and plastic surgery are an appropriate audience for this work coming from major burn centers in the U.S. and Europe. … This is a worthy general update for practitioners.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, September, 2012)

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