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The Essential Burn Unit Handbook, Second Edition
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Main description:

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.


Contents:

Introduction to the Burn Unit
Pathophysiology
Evaluation, Resuscitation, and Treatment
Admissions and Follow-up Care
Wound Care, Use of Antibiotics, and Control of Burn Wound Sepsis
Nutrition
Inhalation Injury
General (Nonburn) Inpatient Wound Care
Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
Electrical Burns
Chemical Burns
Pediatric Burn Management


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9781498705714
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
Publication date: October, 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 1g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Accident & Emergency Medicine, Plastic/Reconstructive & Aesthetic

MEET THE AUTHOR

Jeffrey J. Roth, MD, Las Vegas Plastic Surgery, Nevada, USA


William Hughes, MD, Temple Burn Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Praise for the first edition:

"The authors have succeeded in their aim of producing a valuable and practically useful aid for medical trainees, nurses, and other paramedical staff managing burn victims."
Critical Care

"The authors strike a nice balance between a simple ‘how-to’ manual and an exhaustive theoretical text ... this can certainly be a useful tool for the plastic surgery resident caring for burn patients."
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Journal