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From resuscitation through reconstruction and rehabilitation, Total Burn Care walks you through every step of the burn management process. In this updated Sixth Edition, leading authority Dr. David N. Herndon is joined by new co-editor and plastic surgeon, Dr. Rajiv Sood, to provide detailed procedural guidelines that benefit everyone on the burn care team. This integrated, multidisciplinary text remains an indispensable resource for general and plastic surgeons, intensivists, anesthetists, and nurses, offering practical guidance on meeting the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every patient.

• 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

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. History of Treatments of Burns
2. Teamwork for Total Burns Care: Achievements, Directions, and Hopes
3. Epidemiological, Demographic, and Outcome Characteristics of Burn Injury
4. Prevention of Burn Injuries
5. Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises
6. Care of Outpatient Burns
7. Pre-Hospital Management, Transportation, and Emergency Care
8. Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema
9. Fluid Resuscitation and Early Management
10. Evaluation of the Burn Ward Management Decisions
11. Wound Care
12. Treatment of Infection in Burns
13. Operative Wound Management
14. Anesthesia for Burned Patients
15. The Skin Bank
16. Alternative Wound Coverings
17. AlloDerm
18. The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury
19. Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury
20. Barotrauma
21. Respiratory Care
22. The Systemic Inflammatory Response System
23. The Immunological Response and Strategies for Intervention
24. Hematologic, Hematopoietic, and Acute Phase Responses
25. Significance of the Adrenal and Sympathetic Response to Burn Injury
26. The Hepatic Response to a Thermal Injury
27. Effects of Burn Injury on Bone and Mineral Metabolism
28. Vitamin and Trace Element Homeostasis Following Severe Burn Injury
29. Hypophosphatemia
30. Nutritional Support of the Burned Patient
31. Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response after Burn Injury
32. Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure
33. Renal Failure in Association with Thermal Injuries
34. Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications
35. Burn Nursing
36. The Pediatric Burned Patient
37. Care of Geriatric Patients
38. Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury
39. Electrical Injuries
40. Electrical Injury: Reconstructive Problems
41. Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite
42. Chemical Burns
43. Radiation Injuries, Vesicant Burns, and Mass Casualties
44. Exfoliative and Necrotizing Diseases of the Skin
45. The Burn Problem: A Pathologist's Perspective
46. Wound Healing
47. Mollecular ad Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring
48. Pathophysiology of the Burn Scar
49. Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient
50. Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns
51. Mitigation of the Burn-Induced Hypermetabolic Response During Convalescence
52. Overview of Burn Reconstruction
53. Reconstruction of the Burned Hand
54. Reconstruction of the Head and Neck
55. Reconstruction of the Burned Scalp Using Tissue Expansion
56. Management of the Contractural Deformities Involving the Axilla (Shoulder), Elbow, Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints in Burn Patients
57. Reconstruction of the Burned Breast
58. Management of Burn Injuries of the Perineum
59. Reconstruction of Burn Deformities of the Foot and Ankle
60. The Ethical Dimension of Burn Care
61. Maltreatment by Burning
62. Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment
63. Cost-Containment and Outcome Measures
64. Management of Pain and Other Discomforts in Burned Patients
65. Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Burn Injury
66. Psychological Recovery and Reintegration of Patients with Burn Injuries