Total Burn Care 5th Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780323476614, 0323476619, 9780323510493, 0323510493

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0323510493
• ISBN-13: 9780323510493
• Author: David N. Herndon

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.

Table contents:

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. Prevention of burn injuries
5. Burn management in disasters and humanitarian crises
6. Care of outpatient burns
7. Prehospital management, transportation, and emergency care
8. Pathophysiology of burn shock and burn edema
9. Burn resuscitation
10. Evaluation of the burn wound : management decisions
11. Treatment of infection in burn patients
12. Operative wound management
13. Anesthesia for burned patients
14. The skin bank
15. Skin substitutes and ‘the next level’
16. The pathophysiology of inhalation injury
17. Diagnosis and treatment of inhalation injury
18. Respiratory care
19. The systemic inflammatory response syndrome
20. Host defense antibacterial effector cells influenced by massive burns
21. Biomarkers in burn patient care
22. Hematology, hemostasis, thromboprophylaxis, and transfusion medicine in burn patients
23. Significance of the hormonal, adrenal, and sympathetic responses to burn injury
24. The hepatic response to thermal injury
25. Importance of mineral and bone metabolism after burn
26. Micronutrient homeostasis
27. Hypophosphatemia
28. Nutritional needs and support for the burned patient
29. Modulation of the hypermetabolic response after burn injury
30. Etiology and prevention of multisystem organ failure
31. Acute renal failure in association with thermal injury
32. Critical care in the severely burned : organ support and management of complications
33. Burn nursing
34. Care of the burned pregnant patient
35. Special considerations of age : the pediatric burned patient
36. Care of geriatric patients
37. Surgical management of complications of burn injury
38. Electrical injuries
39. Cold-induced injury : frostbite
40. Chemical burns
41. Radiation injuries and vesicant burns
42. Exfoliative diseases of the integument and soft tissue necrotizing infections
43. Burn injuries of the eye
44. The burn problem : a pathologist’s perspective
45. Molecular and cellular basis of hypertrophic scarring
46. Pathophysiology of the burn scar
47. Burn rehabilitation along the continuum of care
48. Musculoskeletal changes secondary to thermal burns
49. Reconstruction of bodily deformities in burn patients : an overview
50. Reconstruction of the head and neck after burns
51. Management of postburn alopecia
52. Trunk deformity reconstruction
53. Management of contractural deformities involving the shoulder (axilla), elbow, hip, and knee joints in burned patients
54. Acute and reconstructive care of the burned hand
55. Management of burn injuries of the perineum
56. Reconstruction of burn deformities of the lower extremity
57. Electrical injury : reconstructive problems
58. The role of alternative wound substitutes in major burn wounds and burn scar resurfacing
59. Aesthetic reconstruction in burn patients
60. Laser for burn scar treatment
61. The ethical dimension of burn care
62. Intentional burn injuries
63. Functional sequelae and disability assessment
64. Management of pain and other discomforts in burned patients
65. Psychiatric disorders associated with burn injury
66. Psychosocial recovery and reintegration of patients with burn injuries

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