Critical Care of the Burned Patient

Name: Critical Care of the Burned Patient
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ISBN: 9780521047531

ISBN-10: 0521047536

ISBN-13: 9780521047531

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lindsey T. A. Rylah

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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 focussed 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…

Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



List of contributors


Preface


Acknowledgements



Pathophysiology of burn shock




Assessment of thermal burns




Transportation




Resuscitation of major burns




Inhalation injury




Monitoring of the burn patient




The paediatric burn patient




Nutrition




Infection in burn patients




Anaesthesia for the burned patient




Surgical management




Postoperative care of the burned patient




Prognosis of the burn injury




Complications of intensive care of the burned patient



Index