Bookedited by Marc G. Jeschke, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Folke Sjöberg, Steven E. Wolf.
Contents:
Part 1. History, epidemiology, prevention and education / A history of burn care. Leopoldo C. Cancio and Steven E. Wolf
Epidemiology and prevention of burns throughout the world / Michael D. Peck
Prevention of burn injuries / Anna Arno and Judy Knighton
Burns associated with wars and disasters / Jonathan B. Lundy and Leopoldo C. Cancio
Education in burns / Kunaal Jindal and Shahriar Shahrokhi
European practice guidelines for burn care: Minimum level of burn care provision in Europe / Pavel Brychta
Part 2. Pre-hospital and initial management of burns. Pre-hospital, fluid and early management, burn wound evaluation / Folke Sjöberg
Medical documentation of burn injuries / Herbert L. Haller, Michael Giretzlehner, Johannes Dirnberger and Robert Owen
Pathophysiology of burn injury / Gerd G. Gauglitz and Marc G. Jeschke
Anesthesia for patients with acute burn injuries / Lee C. Woodson, Edward Sherwood, Alexis McQuitty and Mark D. Talon
Diagnosis and management of inhalation injury / Tina L. Palmieri and Richard L. Gamelli
Respiratory management / Robert Cartotto
Part 3. Acute burn care and therapy. Organ responses and organ support / Kathryn L. Butler and Robert L. Sheridan
Critical care of thermally injured patient / Mette M. Berger, Shahriar Shahrokhi and Marc G. Jeschke
Treatment of infection in burns / Gerd G. Gauglitz, Shahriar Shahrokhi and Marc G. Jeschke
Acute treatment of severely burned pediatric patients / Gerd G. Gauglitz and Marc G. Jeschke
Adult burn management / Peter Dziewulski, Jorge-Leon Villapalos and Joan Pere Barret
Burns in older adults / Tam N. Pham
Acute management of facial burns / Peter Dziewulski and Jorge-Leon Villapalos
Hand burns / Benjamin P. Amis and Matthew B. Klein
Treatment of burns
established and novel technology / Ludwik K. Branski, Manuel Dibildox, Shahriar Shahrokhi and Marc G. Jeschke
Wound healing / David A. Brown and Nicole S. Gibran
Pain management after burn trauma / Richard Girtler and Burkhard Gustorff
Nutrition support for the burn patient / Amalia Cochran, Jeffrey R. Saffle and Caran Graves
HBO and burns / Harald Andel
Nursing management of the burn-injured person / Judy Knighton and Mary Jako
Outpatient burn care / Bernd Hartmann and Christian Ottomann
Part 4. Non-thermal burns. Electrical injury / Brett D. Arnoldo, John L. Hunt and Gary F. Purdue
Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of chemical burns / Leila Kolios and Günter Germann
Necrotizing and exfoliative diseases of the skin / David A. Sieber, Gerard J. Abood and Richard L. Gamelli
Frostbite / Paul Kraincuk, Maike Keck, David Lumenta and Lars-Peter Kamolz.