The Essential Burn Unit Handbook

ISBN-13: 9781626236806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str.

Jeffrey Roth;William Hughes

Opis

The Essential Burn Unit Handbook is a pocket-sized reference dedicated to evaluation, diagnosis, care, and treatment of burn patients. It covers burn care from initial assessment and treatment to long-term sequelae. This second edition includes a chapter on criteria for burn unit admission 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. In addition to coverage of electrical burns, inhalation injury, chemical burns, and pediatric patient management, the book also presents day-to-day modalities along with sample orders and templates for patient presentation and note organization. A quick-reference glossary includes acronyms, abbreviations, equations, and ranges. This book will help provide better patient care while shortening the learning curve. It stands alone as the most convenient, practical, and informative guide available for those working with burn patients.

Spis treści

1 Introduction to the Burn Unit
2 Pathophysiology
3 Evaluation, Resuscitation, and Treatment
4 Admissions and Follow-up Care
5 Wound Care, Use of Antiobiotics, and Control of Burn Wound Sepsis
6 Nutrition
7 Inhalation Injury
8 General (Nonburn) Inpatient Wound Care
9 Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
10 Electric Burns
11 Chemical Burns
12 Pediatric Burn Management