Principles and Practice of Burn Surgery

✍ Scribed by Juan Barret-Nerin, David N. Herndon

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 426
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book encompasses all of the state-of-the-art techniques currently available for the care of burn patients. Prepared with a focus on education and training, this outstanding guide presents the latest strategies and breakthroughs for the care of burn patients in outpatient, operating room, and intensive care unit settings and introduces all the relevant information required to apply the latest technologies to the care of burn patients using a hands-on approach. Principles And Practice of Burn Surgery covers advancements in resuscitation, operative techniques, infection control, and nutritional/metabolic support and demonstrates key principles in the surgical treatment of burn injuries.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
1. Initial Management and Resuscitation......Page 14
2. General Treatment of Burned Patients......Page 46
3. Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury......Page 68
4. Burn Wound Management and Preparation for Surgery......Page 98
5. Anesthesia for Acute Burn Injuries......Page 116
6. Principles of Burn Surgery......Page 148
7. Management of Superficial Burns......Page 176
8. The Small Burn......Page 200
9. The Major Burn......Page 234
10. Surgical Approaches to the Major Burn......Page 262
11. The Hand......Page 270
12. The Face......Page 294
13. Burn Wound Care and Support of the Metabolic Response to BurnInjury and Surgical Supportive Therapy......Page 304
14. A Practical Approach to Acute Burn Rehabilitation......Page 330
15. Psychosocial Support......Page 378
Index......Page 408