Total Burn Care

Jul 17, 2026

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Total Burn Care (Fifth Edition) presents an integrated, multidisciplinary framework for managing burn injuries from prevention through acute stabilization, resuscitation, wound evaluation, infection control, and operative care. The text covers physiologic mechanisms including burn shock, edema, inhalation injury, systemic inflammatory responses, host defense, endocrine and hepatic effects, metabolic and nutritional support, and complications such as renal failure and organ support in critical care. It further details pediatric, geriatric, pregnant, and special injury types, along with surgical reconstruction, rehabilitation, scarring, pain, and ethical and psychosocial dimensions, emphasizing coordinated team delivery across the continuum.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryHealthcare

FormatPDF

Pages896

Reading Time37 h 38 min

AccessFree to download

Front Matter 4 Copyright 6 Preface 7 In Memorium of Ted Huang, MD 8 List of Contributors 9 Video Table of Contents 17 List of Video Contributors 18 1-A Brief History of Acute Burn Care Management 19 2-Teamwork for Total Burn Care: Burn Centers and Multidisciplinary Burn Teams 28 3-Epidemiological, Demographic and Outcome Characteristics of Burns 35 4-Prevention of Burn Injuries 51 5-Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises 61 6-Care of Outpatient Burns 77 7-Prehospital Management, Transportation, and Emergency Care 87 8-Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema 96 9-Burn Resuscitation 110 10-Evaluation of the Burn Wound: Management Decisions 122 11-Treatment of Infection in Burn Patients 130 12-Operative Wound Management 155 13-Anesthesia for Burned Patients 174 14-The Skin Bank 205 15-Skin Substitutes and ‘the next level’ 216 16-The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury 225 17-Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury 239 18-Respiratory Care 253 19-The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome 265 20-Host Defense Antibacterial Effector Cells Influenced by Massive Burns 285 21-Biomarkers in Burn Patient Care 299 22-Hematology, Hemostasis, Thromboprophylaxis, and Transfusion Medicine in Burn Patients 305 23-Significance of the Hormonal, Adrenal, and Sympathetic Responses to Burn Injury 323 24-The Hepatic Response to Thermal Injury 340 25-Importance of Mineral and Bone Metabolism after Burn 352 26-Micronutrient Homeostasis 362 27-Hypophosphatemia 368 28-Nutritional Needs and Support for the Burned Patient 376 29-Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response after Burn Injury 392 30-Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure 401 31-Acute Renal Failure in Association with Thermal Injury 417 32-Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications 429 33-Burn Nursing 460 34-Care of the Burned Pregnant Patient 470 35-Special Considerations of Age: The Pediatric Burned Patient 480 36-Care of Geriatric Patients 491 37-Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury 498 38-Electrical Injuries 511 39-Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite 520 40-Chemical Burns 527 41-Radiation Injuries and Vesicant Burns 534 42-Exfoliative Diseases of the Integument and Soft Tissue Necrotizing Infections 543 43-Burn Injuries of the Eye 559 44-The Burn Problem: A Pathologist’s Perspective 575 45-Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring 587 46-Pathophysiology of the Burn Scar 602 47-Burn Rehabilitation Along the Continuum of Care 615 48-Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns 652 49-Reconstruction of Bodily Deformities in Burn Patients: An Overview 668 50-Reconstruction of the Head and Neck after Burns 678 51-Management of Postburn Alopecia 702 52-Trunk Deformity Reconstruction

Jul 17, 2026

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