Handbook of Burns Acute Burn Care Volume 1 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jeschke, Marc G. (Editor), Kamolz, Lars-Peter (Editor), Sjöberg, Folke (Editor), Wolf, Steven E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Dermatology.; Emergency medicine.; Surgery.; Plastic surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Plastic Surgery.; Emergency Medicine.

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 us...

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.