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 focus 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. Among them, the contributors encompass all the major facets of critical care of the burned patient: from initial assessment and monitoring, resuscitation, nutritional aspects, infection, anesthesia 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 anesthesia, and to all staff associated with intensive care and burns units.
Edited by:
Lindsey T. A. Rylah (St Andrew's Hospital Billericay )
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 236mm,
Width: 157mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 486g
ISBN: 9780521394956
ISBN 10: 0521394953
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 07 December 1992
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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.
Reviews for Critical Care of the Burned Patient
'This book would be valuable in all Burns Units and is recommended reading for examination candidates.' G. S. Routh, British Journal of Anaesthesia 'The book is full of common sense and achieves a good transatlantic consensus on the practical management of the burned patient.' J. Brown, Anaesthesia '... a most useful, judicious and informative volume that will soon disappear from my shelf ...' Robert F. Armstrong, British Journal of Hospital Medicine
