Total Burn Care
- 6 Edición - 20 de enero de 2026
- Última edición
- Editores: David Herndon, Rajiv Sood
- Idioma: Inglés
From resuscitation through reconstruction and rehabilitation, Total Burn Care walks you through every step of the burn management process. In this updated Sixth Edition, lead… Leer más
- Features abundant, full-color clinical and operative photos, procedural illustrations, diagnostic images, charts, graphs, and diagnostic and treatment algorithms throughout
- Discusses key topics such as infection control, early burn coverage, occupational physical exercise, respiratory therapy, ventilator management, nutritional needs and support, burn nursing, care of outpatient burns, and much more
- Offers new and expanded coverage of reconstruction and plastic surgery, rehabilitation methods, and new techniques such as laser therapies for scar reduction and new bio med options, fluid resuscitation, organ support for burn patients, necrotizing soft tissue infections, and TEN/SJS
- Takes a realistic approach to complications that could arise in the treatment of burn patients
- Summarizes key points at the beginning of each chapter for quick reference
- Provides access to 15+ procedural operative videos and PowerPoint presentations on topics ranging from alopecia and anesthesia to radiation and treatment of infection—ideal for teaching and presenting
- Covers special populations such as elderly, pregnant, and pediatric patients
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
PART I BURN CARE
1 A Brief History of Acute Burn Care Management
2 Teamwork for Total Burn Care: Burn Centers and Multidisciplinary Burn Teams
3 Epidemiological, Demographic, and Outcome Characteristics of Burns
4 Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises
5 Care of Outpatient Burns
6 Prehospital Management, Transportation, and Emergency Care
7 Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema
8 Burn Resuscitation
9 Burn Wound Evaluation
10 Treatment of Infection in Burn Patients
11 Operative Wound Management
12 Anesthesia for Burn Surgery
13 The Skin Bank
14 Skin Substitutes, New Developments
15 The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury
16 Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury
17 Respiratory Care
18 Hematology, Hemostasis, Thromboprophylaxis, and Transfusion Medicine in Burn Patients
19 Significance of the Hormonal, Adrenal, and Sympathetic Responses to Burn Injury
20 Importance of Mineral and Bone Metabolism After Burn
21 Trace Element, Vitamin, and Electrolyte Homeostasis in Major Burns
22 Nutritional Needs and Support for the Burn Patient
23 Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response After Burn Injury
24 Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure
25 Acute Renal Failure in Association With Thermal Injury
26 Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications
27 Burn Nursing
28 Care of the Burned Pregnant Patient
29 Care of the Burned Pediatric Patient
30 Care of Geriatric Patients
31 Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury
32 Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite
33 Chemical Burns
34 Radiation Injuries and Vesicant Burns
35 Combined Burn and Other Injuries
36 Exfoliative Diseases of the Integument and Soft Tissue Necrotizing Infections
37 Burn Injuries of the Eye
38 The Burn Problem: A Pathologist’s Perspective
39 Psychiatric Disorders Associated With Burn Injuries
40 Burn Rehabilitation Along the Continuum of Care
41 Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns
PART II BURN RECONSTRUCTION
42 Principles of Burn Reconstruction
43 Wound Healing
44 Abnormal Wound Healing: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring
45 VAC Therapy for Burn Reconstruction
46 Preoperative Planning: A Holistic Approach to Burn Reconstruction
47 Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment
48 The Pediatric Burned Patient—Optimizing Acute Burn Care for Prevention of Postburn Sequelae
49 Advanced Practice Provider Management of the Burn Reconstructive Patient
50 Skin Substitutes: Surgical Application in Major Burns and Scar Resurfacing
51 The Evolution of Cell-Based Therapies for Cutaneous Repair
52 Flap Reconstruction Using Microsurgery
53 Clinical Lasers and Burn Scar Management
54 Psychosocial Recovery and Reintegration of Patients With Burn Injuries
55 Aesthetic Reconstruction in Burn Patients
56 Burned Scalp/Forehead and Brow
57 Periorbital Burn Management
58 Lip, Mouth, Nose, and Face Reconstruction
59 Total Facial Transplantation
60 Ear
61 Reconstruction of the Burned Neck
62 Reconstruction of Burn Injuries to the Breast and Nipple-Areola Complex
63 Reconstruction of the Axilla
64 Reconstruction of the Contracted Elbow Postburn
65 Reconstruction of the Burned Trunk and Perineum
66 The Burned Hand
67 Reconstruction of Burn Deformities of the Lower Extremity
68 Burn Reconstruction in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Edición: 6
- Última edición
- Publicado: 20 de enero de 2026
- Idioma: Inglés
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