Main description:

This interdisciplinary account provides an integrated and practical guide to the management and treatment of burns. Experts from all the major disciplines involved in critical care have focused their attention on specific problems and areas of treatment involved in the care of burned patients. Although it is essentially a practical guide to the management of thermal injury, with explicit recommendations for courses of treatment, it also provides explanatory background information on the manifestations and clinical consequences of this common source of injury. Between them, the contributors encompass all the major facets of critical care of the burned patient: from initial assessment and monitoring, resuscitation, nutritional aspects, infection, anaesthesia and surgical management, right through to postoperative care and prognosis. The volume will be useful to specialists in critical care, intensive and emergency medicine, surgery and anaesthesia, and to all staff associated with intensive care and burns units.

Contents:

List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Pathophysiology of burn shock W. W. Monafo and P. Q. Bessey; 2. Assessment of thermal burns D. H. Ahrenholz, J. B. Williams and L. D. Solem; 3. Transportation D. L. Edbrooke, R. E. John and R. J. Murray; 4. Resuscitation of major burns J. L. Hunt, W. W. Monafo, G. F. Purdue and L. T. A. Rylah; 5. Inhalation injury W. R. Clark; 6. Monitoring of the burn patient R. J. Kagan; 7. The paediatric burn patient G. F. Purdue and J. L. Hunt; 8. Nutrition M. A. Marano, M. R. Madden, J. L. Finkelstein and C. W. Goodwin; 9. Infection in burn patients C. G. Ward; 10. Anaesthesia for the burned patient L. T. A. Rylah and S. M. Underwood; 11. Surgical management G. D. Warden; 12. Postoperative care of the burned patient R. Bunsell; 13. Prognosis of the burn injury A. D. Wilmshurst; 14. Complications of intensive care of the burned patient S. M. Underwood and L. T. A. Rylah; Index.