Total Burn Care 3rd edition by David N. Herndon explains how to meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every burn patient - and thus achieve optimal recovery and rehabilitation. The 3rd Edition of this definitive reference covers all of the latest advances in the treatment of burns... features new a full-color layout with new color illustrations and clinical photographs.
Book features:
New in this edition:
Contents
Immediate Care
The Burn Wound
Inhalation Injury
Response to Injury
Nonthermal Injuries
Pathophysiology
Rehabilitation
About the Author
David N. Herndon, MD, FACS, Director of Burn Services; Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics, Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair in Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch; Chief of Staff & Director of Research, Shriners Burns Hospital for Children, Galveston, TX.
Book Details
Book features:
- Compiled and edited by one of the world's leading authorities on the management of patients with burns.
- Discusses the management of burn patients from their initial presentation through long-term rehabilitation.
- Addresses the clinical, physical, and social needs of the burn patient and emphasizes a multi-faceted, "team approach" to treatment.
- Covers how to devise integrated treatment programs for different groups of patients, such as elderly and pediatric patients.
- Uses color illustrations and clinical photographs throughout for the first time-incorporating the illustrative strengths of Barret & Herndon's Color Atlas of Burn Care to provide you with a single source of definitive guidance on diagnosis and management.
- Presents new chapters on barotrauma and inhalation injury • the tissue bank • the role of exercise • and the use of dermal templates and burn scar resurfacing.
- Offers fresh perspectives from more than 50% new authors.
- With more than 100 additional contributing experts.
Contents
- 1. History of Treatments of Burns
- 2. Teamwork for Total Burn Care: Achievements, Directions and Hopes
- 3. Epidemiological, Demographic and Outcome Characteristics of Burn Injury
- 4. Prevention of Burn Injuries
Immediate Care
- 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
The Burn Wound
- 10. Evaluation of the Burn Wound: 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
Inhalation Injury
- 18. The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury
- 19. Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury
- 20. Barotrauma and Inhalation Injury
- 21. Respiratory Care
Response to Injury
- 22. The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
- 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. Hepatic Response to Burn 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 Burn Patients
- 34. Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications
- 35. Burn Nursing
- 36. Special Considerations of Age: The Pediatric Burned Patient
- 37. Care of Geriatric Patients
- 38. Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury
Nonthermal Injuries
- 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 Integument
Pathophysiology
- 45. The Burn Problem: A Pathologist's Perspective
- 46. Wound Healing
- 47. Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring
- 48. Pathophysiology of the Burn Scar
Rehabilitation
- 49. Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient
- 50. Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns
- 51. Mitigation of the Burn-Induced Hypermetabolic Response during Convalescence
About the Author
David N. Herndon, MD, FACS, Director of Burn Services; Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics, Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair in Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch; Chief of Staff & Director of Research, Shriners Burns Hospital for Children, Galveston, TX.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 880 pages
- Publisher: Saunders; 3 edition (May 23, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416032746
- ISBN-13: 9781416032748
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9 x 1.9 inches