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Essential Burn Care for Non-Burn Specialists by Jong O. Lee Pdf
Despite a decreasing number of burns and improvement in mortality of burn patients in the United States, burn injuries are still frequent. Non-burn specialists such as emergency medicine physicians and primary care physicians will inevitably treat burn patients. In many instances, the first clinicians to see burn patients are non-burn specialists in the urgent care, emergency department, or primary care clinic, yet they typically do not have any formal training or exposure to burns in residency. As a result, many clinicians feel uneasy about managing burns even if the burn is minor. If a burn center is in a reasonable proximity, one can transfer the patient, but prior to transfer, or if no burn center is available, these clinicians may have to perform the initial management. It is important that they understand the basic principles of burn care. In times of burn disasters, non-burn specialists are needed to care for burn patients as burn centers can be quickly overwhelmed. They should be able to manage burn patients including stabilization, resuscitation and wound care. The text includes all current management available today for the care of burn patients. It is organized in a stepwise manner with clear information listed in sequential chapter formats. Chapter one offers the basic epidemiology of burn care while chapters three and four discuss the initial assessment and management. The chapter five discusses inhalation injury while the next three chapters focus on burn wound management including face and hand. The majority of chapters that follow center on a specific type of burn or burn patient. The last few chapters discuss aftercare including scar management and burn rehabilitation. Written by experts in the field, Essential Burn Care for Non-Burn Specialists is a valuable guide for any physician involved in burn treatment such as emergency physicians, primary care physicians, and general and plastic surgeons.
Burn Care and Treatment by Marc G. Jeschke,Lars-Peter Kamolz,Shahriar Shahrokhi Pdf
The second edition of 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, several chapters on key issues – such as pre-hospital treatment, wound care and infection control, burn nursing, critical care, burn reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation for burn victims – have now been updated. In addition, the book has been supplemented with the latest information on fluid resuscitation, organ support for burn patients, necrotizing soft tissue infections, and TEN/SJS. Written in a concise manner, the updated edition of this book provides essential guidelines for optimal care to improve patient outcomes, and thus will be a valuable reference resource for physicians, surgeons, residents, nurses, and other burn care providers.
The Essential Burn Unit Handbook, Second Edition by Jeffrey J. Roth,William Hughes Pdf
The Essential Burn Unit Handbook is a pocket-sized reference dedicated to the evaluation, diagnosis, care, and treatment of burn patients. It covers the spectrum of burn care, from initial assessment and treatment to long-term sequelae. This second edition includes an added chapter on the criteria for admissions to a burn unit as well as outpatient and follow-up care. It covers a wealth of topics that surgical residents, emergency medicine residents, and critical care fellows often encounter such as patient nutrition, the use of antibiotics, wound care, and some of the unique pathologic conditions seen in this distinct and often critically injured population. The book covers electrical burns, inhalation injury, chemical burns, and pediatric patient management. It also presents a full range of day-to-day management modalities along with sample orders and templates for patient presentation and the organization of notes. A quick-reference glossary includes many of the acronyms and abbreviations used in this setting as well as a list of useful equations and ranges. This book will help you provide better patient care while shortening your learning curve. It stands alone as the most convenient, practical, and informative guide available today for those working with burn patients.
The Essential Burn Unit Handbook by Jeffrey Roth,William Hughes Pdf
The Essential Burn Unit Handbook is a pocket-sized reference dedicated to the evaluation, diagnosis, care, and treatment of burn patients. It covers the spectrum of burn care, from initial assessment and treatment to long-term sequelae. This second edition includes an added chapter on the criteria for admissions to a burn unit as well as outpatient and follow-up care. It covers a wealth of topics that surgical residents, emergency medicine residents, and critical care fellows often encounter such as patient nutrition, the use of antibiotics, wound care, and some of the unique pathologic conditions seen in this distinct and often critically injured population. The book covers electrical burns, inhalation injury, chemical burns, and pediatric patient management. It also presents a full range of day-to-day management modalities along with sample orders and templates for patient presentation and the organization of notes. A quick-reference glossary includes many of the acronyms and abbreviations used in this setting as well as a list of useful equations and ranges. This book will help you provide better patient care while shortening your learning curve. It stands alone as the most convenient, practical, and informative guide available today for those working with burn patients.
Handbook of Burns Volume 1 by Marc G. Jeschke,Lars-Peter Kamolz,Folke Sjöberg,Steven E. Wolf Pdf
The second edition of this volume provides updated information on acute burn treatment. It also discusses genomic responses to burns and novel techniques in this area. Divided into four topical parts, this book provides insights into the history, epidemiology, prevention of burns, as well as initial and pre-hospital management of burns, acute burn care and therapy, and non-thermal burns. All chapters have been edited by leading world authorities on burn care and offer readers a broad overview of the techniques and outcomes in this area. Please also have a look at "Handbook of Burns Volume 2 - Reconstruction and Rehabilitation 2nd edition".
Total Burn Care guides you in providing optimal burn care and maximizing recovery, from resuscitation through reconstruction to rehabilitation! Using an integrated, "team" approach, leading authority David N. Herndon, MD, FACS helps you meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every patient. With Total Burn Care, you'll offer effective burn management every step of the way! Effectively manage burn patients from their initial presentation through long-term rehabilitation. Devise successful integrated treatment programs for different groups of patients, such as elderly and pediatric patients. Browse the complete contents of Total Burn Care online and download images, tables, figures, PowerPoint presentations, procedural videos, and more at www.expertconsult.com! Decrease mortality from massive burns by applying the latest advances in resuscitation, infection control, early coverage of the burn, and management of smoke inhalation and injury. Enhance burn patients' reintegration into society through expanded sections on reconstructive surgery (with an emphasis on early reconstruction), rehabilitation, occupational and physical therapy, respiratory therapy, and ventilator management.
This book emphasizes the fundamental surgical, medical and related procedures involved in each stage of burn care, thus enabling the reader to focus on the essentials, and ensure the best outcome for patients. Chapters range from burn physiology, initial care and resuscitation, to wound evaluation and surgical management, respiratory and critical care, rehabilitation, reconstruction and aftercare. The book’s concise visual approach will appeal to all professionals caring for burn patients in acute or recovery phases.
Total Burn Care guides you in providing optimal burn care and maximizing recovery, from resuscitation through reconstruction to rehabilitation! Using an integrated, "team" approach, leading authority David N. Herndon, MD, FACS helps you meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every patient. With Total Burn Care, you'll offer effective burn management every step of the way! Effectively manage burn patients from their initial presentation through long-term rehabilitation. Devise successful integrated treatment programs for different groups of patients, such as elderly and pediatric patients. Browse the complete contents of Total Burn Care online and download images, tables, figures, PowerPoint presentations, procedural videos, and more at www.expertconsult.com! Decrease mortality from massive burns by applying the latest advances in resuscitation, infection control, early coverage of the burn, and management of smoke inhalation and injury. Enhance burn patients' reintegration into society through expanded sections on reconstructive surgery (with an emphasis on early reconstruction), rehabilitation, occupational and physical therapy, respiratory therapy, and ventilator management.
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 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. Discusses infection control, early burn coverage, occupational physical exercise, respiratory therapy, and ventilator management. Summarizes key points at the beginning of each chapter for quick reference. Uses an integrated, team approach to help you meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every patient. Offers expert guidance on early reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation, with new content on improved surgical techniques. 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 and pediatric patients, and includes a new chapter on burns in pregnancy. Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Burn Care for General Surgeons and General Practitioners by David G. Greenhalgh Pdf
This textbook on burn care is focused specifically on the needs of a surgeon. It provides a “how to do” text that presents the practical strategies for initial resuscitation, skin grafting, burn-specific critical care and ultimately guide the surgeon for the best outcomes for the burn surgeon. It provides the reader with basic pathophysiology but avoids a detailed review of the molecular science of burns. Guidelines for basic care with the chapters covering the timeline used for each patient spanning from initial resuscitation (ABCs) to managing their re-socialization are provided. The text covers the key components to the initial management of the burn patient including airway, breathing and circulation. The reader is introduced to the metabolic changes of a major burn and how nutrition and pharmacologic manipulation affects these systemic effects of a burn injury. The management of burn sepsis as well as the basic concepts of wound healing of the different depths and severity of burns are covered. Another chapter covers the basic techniques of skin grafting, rehabilitation and reconstruction with a focus to optimize the cosmetic and functional outcome of the burn. Special chapters cover management of outpatient burns and pediatric injuries. Special burns – electrical, chemical, cold injuries and finally the treatment of other diseases that lead to massive skin loss are covered. Special considerations for pain, scar management, psychosocial recovery, intentional burns, burn prevention and disaster preparation complete the text. Burn Care for General Surgeons and General Practitioners provides a reference for general and plastic surgeons who are planning a career in burns. The textbook will also be a straightforward resource for the general or plastic surgeon who takes care of burns as part of their practice.
Burn Care and Therapy by Gretchen J. Carrougher Pdf
BURN CARE AND THERAPY provides a comprehensive analysis of the care and treatment of burns. Beginning with Physiologic Response to Cutaneous Burn Injury and ending with Burn Prevention, the book is divided into 21 chapters that chronologically follow the care provided throughout the burn continuum. Authored by burn experts in their areas of specialty, a collaborative approach is used. Nursing care is presented through each phase of care while integrating medical management. The text is heavily illustrated and a color insert is included to accurately showcase the stages of burn care and healing. A quick reference guide highlighting common nursing and medical burn care facts and figures is provided free with the purchase of the book.TOC: * A collaborative approach demonstrates how a burn care team manages burn care and therapy. * Nursing care is included with each phase of burn care. * Each chapter focuses on every phase of burn treatment from transport to discharge. A final chapter addresses prevention and community planning for burn education. * More than 200 illustrations (45 in full color), including a 16-page color insert, assist the burn professional in determining the extent of the burn wound. * An entire chapter dedicated to pain heavily addresses assessment, treatment, and pharmacokinetics to help the burn care team assess the pain agents that most effectively manage pain. * Sample critical paths are provided for each chapter for guidance in developing a collaborative approach to burn care. * Diagnostic findings and patient management as it relates to nursing care is discussed within the context of the burn patient continuum.
The Essential Burn Unit Handbook by Jeffrey J. Roth,William Hughes Pdf
The Essential Burn Unit Handbook is a pocket-sized reference dedicated to the evaluation, diagnosis, care, and treatment of burn patients. It covers the spectrum of burn care, from initial assessment and treatment to long-term sequelae.
Background: Despite the improvements in burn care during the last decades, burns remain catastrophic for the patients and a challenge for the care-givers. The early outcome of burn care is to assess its quality and to improve it, but the crucial outcome is mortality, which is the main focus of this thesis. In particular, I address questions about mortality that have arisen from working with burned patients and that can have clinical consequences: the impact of pre- existing medical conditions; long-term survival; the causes of unexpected deaths; and the possible differences between sexes in the provision of resources. Patients with burns share the fact that the time of their injury is known, its severity can be quantified from the size of the burn, and the care is relatively standardised. The analysis of outcome among burned patients treated at a single burn centre may therefore be of general value to others who treat burns. Methods: We retrospectively analysed data that had been collected prospectively (the burn unit database) from patients with burns admitted consecutively to a national burn centre in Sweden during the last 25 years. Results: Age and percentage of total body surface area burned (TBSA %) affected the in- hospital mortality, whereas pre-existing medical conditions did not influence the prediction of outcome (Paper I). After discharge, both age and the presence of full thickness burns reduced the long-term survival, whereas the extent of the burn (TBSA %) did not (Paper II). Most patients with moderate burns who die in hospital despite a good prognosis, die for reasons other than the burn (Paper III). Previously, it has been shown that sex is not an independent factor for mortality during burn care; in this thesis we show that the sex of the patients did not affect the number of medical interventions given either (Paper IV). Conclusion: The addition of “coexisting condition” to a mortality model based on age and size of burn does not improve its predictive value; rather, the factor “age” is sufficient to adjust for comorbidity in the assessment of a burn and its outcome (Paper I). If patients with burns survive, the long-term prognosis is good. The effect of age is the one that governs survival, whereas the effect of the extent of the burn ends when the patient is discharged (Paper II). The in-hospital mortality during burn care is low, but some patients die for reasons other than the actual burn (Paper III). In a centre where the mortality is independent of the sex of the patient, the provision of medical interventions is also equal between men and women (Paper IV). Questa tesi tratta del rischio di morte in seguito ad ustioni ed affronta, con approccio scientifico, alcune domande sollevate frequentemente da pazienti e da addetti ai lavori. In particolare: a presenza di altre malattie a prescindere dall´ustione (diabete, nefropatie, alcolismo, etc.) peggiora la prognosi del paziente?L´essere sopravvissuto ad un´ustione riduce l´aspettativa di vita dopo la dimissione dall´ospedale?Qual è la causa di morte in quei (rari) pazienti che muoiono con ustioni di modesta entità?Il sesso del paziente influenza le cure prestate durante il ricovero ed, in tal caso, qual è l´effetto sulla prognosi? Spesso avevamo risposto a questi interrogativi di interesse clinico basandoci sull´esperienza o su luoghi comuni accettati acriticamente. Con questa tesi abbiamo cercato con metodo scientifico delle risposte di valore generale, analizzando i dati raccolti durante l´ultimo ventennio sui pazienti ricoverati a causa di traumi termici al Centro Nazionale Grandi Ustioni dell´Università di Linköping. In Svezia, come negli altri paesi a reddito medio-alto, il tasso di mortalità in seguito ad ustioni è diminuito notevolmente negli ultimi anni, tuttavia l´obbiettivo principale tra gli addetti ai lavori rimane quello di diminuire ulteriormente la mortalità. L´identificazione precoce di pazienti ad alto rischio di morte fornisce un mezzo utile per migliorarne la prognosi. A tale proposito sono stati sviluppati numerosi modelli matematici in grado di calcolare la probabilità di morte in seguito ad ustioni, basati principalmente sull`età del paziente e sull´ estensione dell´ustione. Infatti, è intuitivamente comprensibile che il rischio di morire aumenti con l´età del paziente e la gravità dell´ustione. Nel nostro primo studio abbiamo aggiunto ad un modello prognostico basato su età e superficie corporea ustionata informazioni sulle malattie già presenti nel paziente prima dell`ustione. Contrariamente a quanto ipotizzato, la presenza di altre malattie negli ustionati non ne aumenta la probabilità di morte. Nel nostro secondo studio abbiamo seguito i pazienti sopravvissuti all´ustione dopo la dimissione dal nostro Centro ed abbiano dimostrato che l´ustione in se´ non ne accorcia la vita ne´a breve termine (nei 30 giorni seguenti la dimissione), ne´a lungo termine. È piuttosto inusuale che pazienti con ustioni di modesta gravitá muioiano durante il ricovero ospedaliero. Nel nostro terzo studio abbiamo dimostrato che la principale cause di morte tra questi pazienti non è correlata all´ustione in se´, ma ad altre patologie indipendenti dal trauma termico, quali l´ictus o l´infarto miocardico. A livello internazionale è stato ampiamente documentato un impari impiego delle cure mediche tra i sessi, a discapito delle donne. Questa disparità riguarda principalmente la diversa allocazione delle risorse terapeutiche, ma ha conseguenze negative sul´esito finale della cura. Studi provenienti da diversi centri per la terapia delle grandi ustioni (USA, Australia, India) hanno dimostrato che il rischio di morte in ospedale è maggiore per le pazienti femmine. In contrasto con questo, una precedente ricerca svolta presso il nostro centro non ha mostrato alcuna differenza nella sopravvivenza tra uomini e donne. Anche tra i pazienti della terapia intensiva generale svedese la mortalità è simile per entrambi i sessi, nonostante gli uomini ricevano più trattamenti rispetto alle donne. Questa osservazione apre le porte ad un´ovvia domanda, e cioè: se le donne ricevessero le stesse attenzioni degli uomini morirebbero esse su scala minore? In linea con i risultati riguardanti la mortalità precedentemente pubblicati dal nostro centro, col nostro quarto studio abbiamo dimostrato che non esiste alcuna disparità tra i sessi nella distribuzione delle risorse. In sintesi, con questa tesi abbiamo dimostrato che: i fattori che maggiormente influenzano la prognosi in caso di ustione sono l'età del paziente e l´area corporea ustionata; la presenza di altre patologie non aumenta significativamente il rischio di morte.L´essere sopravvissutto ad un´ustione non riduce l´aspettativa di vita dopo la dimissione dall´ospedale.Una percentuale non indifferente delle morti che si verificano durante il periodo di cura per ustioni di modesta gravità è causata da fattori indipendenti dall´ustione stessa.Uomini e donne nel nostro centro ricevono equo trattamento. La prognosi per donne e uomini ricoverati nel nostro centro è la stessa. Riteniamo che i risultati presentati in questa tesi dovrebbero essere tenuti in considerazione nella terapia dei pazienti ustionati: il trattamento attivo dovrebbe essere offerto a chiunque abbia una ragionevole possibilità di sopravvivenza, calcolata sulla base dell´età e della gravità dell´ustione. Una volta guariti da un´ustione l´aspettativa di vita è buona. Non va scordato che, tra i pazienti che muoiono in seguito ad un´ustione, le cause di morte potrebbero essere dovute a patologie di altra natura. Non si evidenziano differenze nelle mortalitá, lí dove venga offerto uguale trattamento a uomini e donne.
Burns by Iain S. Whitaker,Kayvan Shokrollahi,William A. Dickson Pdf
Burn injuries are recognised as a major health problem worldwide, causing morbidity and mortality in individuals of all ages. The Oxford Specialist Handbook of Burns is a concise, easy-to-navigate reference text that outlines the assessment, management, and rehabilitation of burns patients. With contributions from international experts, this handbook covers all aspects of burn-patient care, from first aid to reconstructive techniques and physiotherapy. This new, pocket-sized title is an invaluable resource for all those who come into contact with burns patients, from accident and emergency doctors to allied health professionals, as well as specialists and trainees in burns units. Filling an important niche in the market for an accessible quick-access guide for those first on the scene, The Oxford Specialist Handbook of Burns is a comprehensive and detailed new resource.
Burn Care and Treatment by Marc G Jeschke,Lars-Peter Kamolz,Shahriar Shahrokhi Pdf
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.
