Burn Care and Treatment A Practical Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jeschke, Marc G. (Editor), Kamolz, Lars-Peter (Editor), Shahrokhi, Shahriar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Dermatology.; Emergency medicine.; Nursing.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Emergency Medicine.

This practical guide offers a comprehensive summary of the most important and most immediate therapeutic approaches in the assessment and treatment of burn injuries. Taking into account age-specific needs in pediatric, adult, and elderly burn patients, the book discusses key issues such as pre-hospi...

Table of Contents:

• Pre-hospital, fluid and early management, burn wound evaluation
• Pathophysiology of Brun Injury
• Anaesthesia and Pain Management
• Wound Healing and Wound Care
• Infection Control
• Acute Burn Surgery
• Critical Care of Burn Victims Including Inhalation Injury
• Nutrition of the Burned Patient and Treatment of the Hypermetabolic Response
• Nursing Management of the Burn-injured Person
• Electrical Injury, Chemical Burns, and cold Injury  "Frostbite"
• Long-term Pathophysiology and Consequences of Burns Including Scarring, HTS, Keloids and Scar Treatment, Rehabilitation, Exercise
• Burn Reconstruction.