Burn Care and Treatment (eBook)

A Practical Guide

Marc G. Jeschke, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Shahriar Shahrokhi (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2013 | 2013
V, 188 Seiten
Springer Wien (Verlag)
978-3-7091-1133-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.​  

Inhalt

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.​

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2013
• Zusatzinfo: V, 188 p.
• Verlagsort: Vienna
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Anästhesie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Dermatologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Schlagworte: Burns • burns, treatment, rehabilitation, reconstruction, wound • reconstruction • Rehabilitation • Treatment • Wound
• ISBN-10: 3-7091-1133-1 / 3709111331
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7091-1133-8 / 9783709111338