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    • Author/Creator:Jeschke, Marc G.
    • Title:Burn Care and Treatment [electronic resource] : A Practical Guide / edited by Marc G. Jeschke, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Shahriar Shahrokhi.
    • ISBN:9783709111338
    • Published/Created:Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
    • Physical Description:V, 188 p. 50 illus., 43 illus. in color. digital.
    • Links:Online book
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    • Summary:This practical guide offers a comprehensive summary of the most important and most immediate therapeutic approaches in the assessment and treatment of burn injuries. Taking into account age-specific needs in pediatric, adult, and elderly burn patients, the book discusses key issues such as pre-hospital treatment, wound care and infection control, burn nursing, and critical care. In addition, burn reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation for burn victims are described. Written in a concise manner, Burn Care and Treatment provides guidelines for the optimal care in order to improve patient outcome, and thus will be a valuable reference for physicians, surgeons, residents, nurses, and other burn care providers.​  
    • Variant and related titles:Springer ebooks.
    • Other formats:Printed edition:
    • Format:Book
    • Contents: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.​.
    • Subjects:Medicine.
      Anesthesiology.
      Dermatology.
      Emergency medicine.
      Nursing.
      Surgery.
    • Also listed under:Kamolz, Lars-Peter.
      Shahrokhi, Shahriar.
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