Total Burn Care

Author:: David N. Herndon
Format:: Hardcover

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Short description

Using an integrated, "team" approach, this work explains how to meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every burn patient and thus achieve optimal recovery and rehabilitation. It covers the advances in the treatment of burns; and features a full-color layout with color illustrations and clinical photographs.

Long description

Using an integrated, "team" approach, leading authority David N. Herndon, MD, FACS explains how to meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every burn patient and thus achieve optimal recovery and rehabilitation. The 3rd Edition of this definitive reference covers all of the latest advances in the treatment of burns; features new full-color layout with new color illustrations and clinical photographs; and comes with a bonus CD-ROM containing all of the figures from the text.

Product details

Publisher:: W.B. Saunders Company
ISBN:: 9781416032748
Publication date:: April 2007
Length:: 278mm
Width:: 225mm
Thickness:: 50mm
Weight:: 3162g
Edition:: 3rd Edition
Pages:: 878
Illustrations:: Illustrated
Readership:: Research & professional
Illustrated:: Illustrated

1. History of Treatments of Burns 2. Teamwork for Total Burn Care: Achievements, Directions and Hopes 3. Epidemiological, Demographic and Outcome Characteristics of Burn Injury 4. Prevention of Burn Injuries Immediate Care 5. Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises 6. Care of Outpatient Burns 7. Pre-Hospital Management, Transportation and Emergency Care 8. Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema 9. Fluid Resuscitation and Early Management The Burn Wound 10. Evaluation of the Burn Wound: Management Decisions 11. Wound Care 12. Treatment of Infection in Burns 13. Operative Wound Management 14. Anesthesia for Burned Patients 15. The Skin Bank 16. Alternative Wound Coverings 17. AlloDerm Inhalation Injury 18. The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury 19. Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury 20. Barotrauma and Inhalation Injury 21. Respiratory Care Response to Injury 22. The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome 23. The Immunological Response and Strategies for Intervention 24. Hematologic, Hematopoietic, and Acute Phase Responses 25. Significance of the Adrenal and Sympathetic Response to Burn Injury 26. Hepatic Response to Burn Injury 27. Effects of Burn Injury on Bone and Mineral Metabolism 28. Vitamin and Trace Element Homeostasis Following Severe Burn Injury 29. Hypophosphatemia 30. Nutritional Support of the Burned Patient 31. Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response after Burn Injury 32. Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure 33. Renal Failure in Burn Patients 34. Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications 35. Burn Nursing 36. Special Considerations of Age: The Pediatric Burned Patient 37. Care of Geriatric Patients 38. Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury Nonthermal Injuries 39. Electrical Injuries 40. Electrical Injury: Reconstructive Problems 41. Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite 42. Chemical Burns 43. Radiation Injuries, Vesicant Burns and Mass Casualties 44. Exfoliative and Necrotizing Diseases of the Integument Pathophysiology 45. The Burn Problem: A Pathologists Perspective 46. Wound Healing 47. Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring 48. Pathophysiology of the Burn Scar Rehabilitation 49. Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient 50. Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns 51. Mitigation of the Burn-Induced Hypermetabolic Response during Convalescence Reconstruction 52. Overview of Burn Reconstruction 53. Reconstruction of the Burned Hand 54. Reconstruction of the Head and Neck 55. Reconstruction of the Burned Scalp Using Tissue Expansion 56. Management of Contractual Deformities Involving the Shoulder, Elbow, Hip and Knee Joints in Burn Patients 57. Reconstruction of the Burned Breast 58. Management of Burn Injuries of the Perineum 59. Foot Burns and Their Complications Social Issues 60. The Ethical Dimensions of Burn Care 61. Maltreatment by Burning 62. Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment 63. Cost Co