Total Burn Care

Front Cover
Elsevier Health Sciences, 2007 - Medical - 878 pages
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 and features new a full-colour layout with new colour illustrations and clinical photographs.
  • Compiled and edited by one of the world's leading authorities on the management of patients with burns.
  • Discusses the management of burn patients from their initial presentation through long-term rehabilitation.
  • Addresses the clinical, physical, and social needs of the burn patient and emphasizes a multi-faceted, "team approach" to treatment.
  • Covers how to devise integrated treatment programs for different groups of patients, such as elderly and pediatric patients.
  • Uses colour illustrations and clinical photographs throughout for the first time-incorporating the illustrative strengths of Barret & Herndon's Color Atlas of Burn Care to provide you with a single source of definitive guidance on diagnosis and management.
  • Presents new chapters on barotrauma and inhalation injury . the tissue bank . the role of exercise . and the use of dermal templates and burn scar resurfacing.
  • Offers fresh perspectives from more than 50% new authors.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 History of Treatments of Burns
1
Achievements Directions and Hopes
9
Chapter 3 Epidemiological Demographic and Outcome Characteristics of Burn Injury
14
Chapter 4 Prevention of Burn Injuries
33
Chapter 5 Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises
43
Chapter 6 Care of Outpatient Burns
67
Chapter 7 PreHospital Management Transportation and Emergency Care
81
Chapter 8 Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema
93
Chapter 35 Burn Nursing
477
Chapter 36 The Pediatric Burned Patient
485
Chapter 37 Care of Geriatric Patients
496
Chapter 38 Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury
502
Chapter 39 Electrical Injuries
513
Reconstructive Problems
521
Frostbite
530
Chapter 42 Chemical Burns
536

Chapter 9 Fluid Resuscitation and Early Management
107
Management Decisions
119
Chapter 11 Wound Care
127
Chapter 12 Treatment of Infection in Burns
136
Chapter 13 Operative Wound Management
177
Chapter 14 Anesthesia for Burned Patients
196
Chapter 15 The Skin Bank
229
Chapter 16 Alternative Wound Coverings
239
Chapter 17 AlloDerm
246
Chapter 18 The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury
248
Chapter 19 Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury
262
Chapter 20 Barotrauma
273
Chapter 21 Respiratory Care
281
Chapter 22 The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
292
Chapter 23 The Immunological Response and Strategies for Intervention
310
Chapter 24 Hematologic Hematopoietic and Acute Phase Responses
325
Chapter 25 Significance of the Adrenal and Sympathetic Response to Burn Injury
343
Chapter 26 The Hepatic Response to a Thermal Injury
361
Chapter 27 Effects of Burn Injury on Bone and Mineral Metabolism
379
Chapter 28 Vitamin and Trace Element Homeostasis Following Severe Burn Injury
387
Chapter 29 Hypophosphatemia
391
Chapter 30 Nutritional Support of the Burned Patient
398
Chapter 31 Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response after Burn Injury
420
Chapter 32 Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure
434
Chapter 33 Renal Failure in Association with Thermal Injuries
446
Organ Support and Management of Complications
454
Chapter 43 Radiation Injuries Vesicant Burns and Mass Casualties
542
Chapter 44 Exfoliative and Necrotizing Diseases of the Skin
554
A Pathologists Perspective
566
Chapter 46 Wound Healing
578
Chapter 47 Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring
596
Chapter 48 Pathophysiology of the Burn Scar
608
Chapter 49 Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient
620
Chapter 50 Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns
652
Chapter 51 Mitigation of the BurnInduced Hypermetabolic Response During Convalescence
667
Chapter 52 Overview of Burn Reconstruction
674
Chapter 53 Reconstruction of the Burned Hand
687
Chapter 54 Reconstruction of the Head and Neck
701
Chapter 55 Reconstruction of the Burned Scalp Using Tissue Expansion
719
Chapter 56 Management of Contractural Deformities Involving the Axilla Shoulder Elbow Hip Knee and Ankle Joints In Burn Patients
727
Chapter 57 Reconstruction of the Burned Breast
741
Chapter 58 Management of Burn Injuries of the Perineum
749
Chapter 59 Reconstruction of Burn Deformities of the Foot and Ankle
759
Chapter 60 The Ethical Dimension of Burn Care
765
Chapter 61 Maltreatment by Burning
771
Chapter 62 Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment
781
Chapter 63 CostContainment and Outcome Measures
788
Chapter 64 Management of Pain and Other Discomforts in Burned Patients
797
Chapter 65 Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Burn Injury
819
Chapter 66 Psychosocial Recovery and Reintegration of Patients with Burn Injuries
829
Index
844
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information