Total Burn Care

Rajiv Sood is Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Services, Georgia.

• PART I BURN CARE1 A Brief History of Acute Burn Care Management2 Teamwork for Total Burn Care: Burn Centers and Multidisciplinary Burn Teams3 Epidemiological, Demographic, and Outcome Characteristics of Burns4 Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises5 Care of Outpatient Burns6 Prehospital Management, Transportation, and Emergency Care7 Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema8 Burn Resuscitation9 Burn Wound Evaluation10 Treatment of Infection in Burn Patients11 Operative Wound Management12 Anesthesia for Burn Surgery13 The Skin Bank14 Skin Substitutes, New Developments15 The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury16 Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury17 Respiratory Care18 Hematology, Hemostasis, Thromboprophylaxis, and Transfusion Medicine in Burn Patients19 Significance of the Hormonal, Adrenal, and Sympathetic Responses to Burn Injury20 Importance of Mineral and Bone Metabolism After Burn21 Trace Element, Vitamin, and Electrolyte Homeostasis in Major Burns22 Nutritional Needs and Support for the Burn Patient23 Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response After Burn Injury24 Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure25 Acute Renal Failure in Association With Thermal Injury26 Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications27 Burn Nursing28 Care of the Burned Pregnant Patient29 Care of the Burned Pediatric Patient30 Care of Geriatric Patients31 Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury32 Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite33 Chemical Burns34 Radiation Injuries and Vesicant Burns35 Combined Burn and Other Injuries36 Exfoliative Diseases of the Integument and Soft Tissue Necrotizing Infections37 Burn Injuries of the Eye38 The Burn Problem: A Pathologist’s Perspective39 Psychiatric Disorders Associated With Burn Injuries40 Burn Rehabilitation Along the Continuum of Care41 Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal BurnsPART II BURN RECONSTRUCTION42 Principles of Burn Reconstruction43 Wound Healing44 Abnormal Wound Healing: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring45 VAC Therapy for Burn Reconstruction46 Preoperative Planning: A Holistic Approach to Burn Reconstruction47 Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment48 The Pediatric Burned Patient-Optimizing Acute Burn Care for Prevention of Postburn Sequelae49 Advanced Practice Provider Management of the Burn Reconstructive Patient50 Skin Substitutes: Surgical Application in Major Burns and Scar Resurfacing51 The Evolution of Cell-Based Therapies for Cutaneous Repair52 Flap Reconstruction Using Microsurgery53 Clinical Lasers and Burn Scar Management54 Psychosocial Recovery and Reintegration of Patients With Burn Injuries55 Aesthetic Reconstruction in Burn Patients56 Burned Scalp/Forehead and Brow57 Periorbital Burn Management58 Lip, Mouth, Nose, and Face Reconstruction59 Total Facial Transplantation60 Ear61 Reconstruction of the Burned Neck62 Reconstruction of Burn Injuries to the Breast and Nipple-Areola Complex63 Reconstruction of the Axilla64 Reconstruction of the Contracted Elbow Postburn65 Reconstruction of the Burned Trunk and Perineum66 The Burned Hand67 Reconstruction of Burn Deformities of the Lower Extremity68 Burn Reconstruction in Low- and Middle-Income Countries