Burn Care and Treatment
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-hospital treatment, wound care and infection control, burn nursing, and critical care. In addition, burn reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation for burn victims are described. Written in a concise manner, Burn Care and Treatment provides guidelines for the optimal care in order to improve patient outcome, and thus will be a valuable reference for physicians, surgeons, residents, nurses, and other burn care providers.
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.
From the reviews:
"This is a useful textbook for clinicians working in specialist burns care settings. The text is highly detailed, and contains copious relevant and current guidelines and references. ... at a more specialist level this is a valuable resource and a very practical reference aid." (Kana Miyagi, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 75 (2), February, 2014)
"It covers key issues across the spectrum of the treatment of burn injury. Trainees and practitioners managing patients with thermal injury are the intended audience for this work emanating from an international group of contributors and editors. ... This is an effective introduction to the major topics is burn management for senior trainees or new practitioners. Because of the international perspective of authors and editors, a wider range of management strategies are discussed in comparison to works with a North American perspective." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2013)
From the reviews:
“It covers key issues across the spectrum of the treatment of burn injury. Trainees and practitioners managing patients with thermal injury are the intended audience for this work emanating from an international group of contributors and editors. … This is an effective introduction to the major topics is burn management for senior trainees or new practitioners. Because of the international perspective of authors and editors, a wider range of management strategies are discussed in comparison to works with a North American perspective.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, July, 2013)
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.3.2013 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 50 illus., 43 in color |
| Verlagsort | Wien |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 470 g |
| Einbandart | gebunden |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Dermatologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin | |
| Schlagworte | Burns • burns, treatment, rehabilitation, reconstruction, wound • reconstruction • Rehabilitation • Treatment • Verbrennung / Brandverletzung (Medizin) • Verbrennung (Medizin) • Wound |
| ISBN-10 | 3-7091-1132-3 / 3709111323 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-7091-1132-1 / 9783709111321 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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