Burn Care and Treatment

This comprehensive, practical book reviews the most important and most immediate therapeutic approaches for assessment and treatment of burn injuries. Covers age-specific patient needs, infection control, wound care, reconstruction and rehabilitation and more.

Comprehensive overview of current therapeutic measures in burn management

Establishes practical guidelines to improve care and patient outcomes

Easily accessible reference guide

Comprehensive overview of current therapeutic measures in burn management Establishes practical guidelines to improve care and patient outcomes Easily accessible reference guide?

Inhalt
Pre-hospital, fluid and early management, burn wound evaluation.- Pathophysiology of Brun Injury.- Anaesthesia and Pain Management.- Wound Healing and Wound Care.- Infection Control.- Acute Burn Surgery.- Critical Care of Burn Victims Including Inhalation Injury.- Nutrition of the Burned Patient and Treatment of the Hypermetabolic Response.- Nursing Management of the Burn-injured Person.- Electrical Injury, Chemical Burns, and cold Injury "Frostbite".- Long-term Pathophysiology and Consequences of Burns Including Scarring, HTS, Keloids and Scar Treatment, Rehabilitation, Exercise.- Burn Reconstruction.