Total Burn Care, 5th Edition

Description:

Recent advances in research have resulted in tremendous changes in burn management. Stay fully up to date with the new edition of Total Burn Care, by leading authority Dr. David N. Herndon. Detailed procedural guidelines and video clips walk you through every step of the process, from resuscitation through reconstruction and rehabilitation. Everyone on the burn care team, including general and plastic surgeons, intensivists, anesthestists, and nurses, will benefit from this integrated, multidisciplinary guide to safe and effective burn management.

Features:

• Discusses infection control, early burn coverage, occupational physical exercise, respiratory therapy, and ventilator management.
• Summarizes key points at the beginning of each chapter for quick reference.
• Uses an integrated, team approach to help you meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every patient.

New To This Edition:

• Offers expert guidance on early reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation, with new content on improved surgical techniques.
• 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 and pediatric patients, and includes a new chapter on burns in pregnancy.

Table of Contents:

Multimedia Resources

Chapter 1:  A Brief History of Acute Burn Care Management

Chapter 2:  Teamwork for Total Burn Care: Burn Centers and Multidisciplinary Burn Teams

Chapter 3:  Epidemiological, Demographic and Outcome Characteristics of Burns

Chapter 4:  Prevention of Burn Injuries

Chapter 5:  Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises

Chapter 6:  Care of Outpatient Burns

Chapter 7:  Prehospital Management, Transportation, and Emergency Care

Chapter 8:  Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema

Chapter 9:  Burn Resuscitation

Chapter 10:  Evaluation of the Burn Wound: Management Decisions

Chapter 11:  Treatment of Infection in Burn Patients

Chapter 12:  Operative Wound Management

Chapter 13:  Anesthesia for Burned Patients

Chapter 14:  The Skin Bank

Chapter 15:  Skin Substitutes and ‘the next level’

Chapter 16:  The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury

Chapter 17:  Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury

Chapter 18:  Respiratory Care

Chapter 19:  The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome

Chapter 20:  Host Defense Antibacterial Effector Cells Influenced by Massive Burns

Chapter 21:  Biomarkers in Burn Patient Care

Chapter 22:  Hematology, Hemostasis, Thromboprophylaxis, and Transfusion Medicine in Burn Patients

Chapter 23:  Significance of the Hormonal, Adrenal, and Sympathetic Responses to Burn Injury

Chapter 24:  The Hepatic Response to Thermal Injury

Chapter 25:  Importance of Mineral and Bone Metabolism after Burn

Chapter 26:  Micronutrient Homeostasis

Chapter 27:  Hypophosphatemia

Chapter 28:  Nutritional Needs and Support for the Burned Patient

Chapter 29:  Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response after Burn Injury

Chapter 30:  Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure

Chapter 31:  Acute Renal Failure in Association with Thermal Injury

Chapter 32:  Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications

Chapter 33:  Burn Nursing

Chapter 34:  Care of the Burned Pregnant Patient

Chapter 35:  Special Considerations of Age: The Pediatric Burned Patient

Chapter 36:  Care of Geriatric Patients

Chapter 37:  Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury

Chapter 38:  Electrical Injuries

Chapter 39:  Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite

Chapter 40:  Chemical Burns

Chapter 41:  Radiation Injuries and Vesicant Burns

Chapter 42:  Exfoliative Diseases of the Integument and Soft Tissue Necrotizing Infections

Chapter 43:  Burn Injuries of the Eye

Chapter 44:  The Burn Problem: A Pathologist’s Perspective

Chapter 45:  Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring

Chapter 46:  Pathophysiology of the Burn Scar

Chapter 47:  Burn Rehabilitation Along the Continuum of Care

Chapter 48:  Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns

Chapter 49:  Reconstruction of Bodily Deformities in Burn Patients: An Overview

Chapter 50:  Reconstruction of the Head and Neck after Burns

Chapter 51:  Management of Postburn Alopecia

Chapter 52:  Trunk Deformity Reconstruction

Chapter 53:  Management of Contractural Deformities Involving the Shoulder (Axilla), Elbow, Hip, and Knee Joints in Burned Patients

Chapter 54:  Acute and Reconstructive Care of the Burned Hand

Chapter 55:  Management of Burn Injuries of the Perineum

Chapter 56:  Reconstruction of Burn Deformities of the Lower Extremity

Chapter 57:  Electrical Injury: Reconstructive Problems

Chapter 58:  The Role of Alternative Wound Substitutes in Major Burn Wounds and Burn Scar Resurfacing

Chapter 59:  Aesthetic Reconstruction in Burn Patients

Chapter 60:  Laser for Burn Scar Treatment

Chapter 61:  The Ethical Dimension of Burn Care

Chapter 62:  Intentional Burn Injuries

Chapter 63:  Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment

Chapter 64:  Management of Pain and Other Discomforts in Burned Patients

Chapter 65:  Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Burn Injury

Chapter 66:  Psychosocial Recovery and Reintegration of Patients with Burn Injuries