The Essential Burn Unit Handbook
eBook - PDF

The Essential Burn Unit Handbook

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Essential Burn Unit Handbook

About this book

The Essential Burn Unit Handbook is a pocket-sized reference dedicated to the evaluation, diagnosis, care, and treatment of burn patients. It covers the spectrum of burn care, from initial assessment and treatment to long-term sequelae.

This second edition includes an added chapter on the criteria for admissions to a burn unit 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 such as patient nutrition, the use of antibiotics, wound care, and some of the unique pathologic conditions seen in this distinct and often critically injured population.

The book covers electrical burns, inhalation injury, chemical burns, and pediatric patient management. It also presents a full range of day-to-day management modalities along with sample orders and templates for patient presentation and the organization of notes. A quick-reference glossary includes many of the acronyms and abbreviations used in this setting as well as a list of useful equations and ranges.

This book will help you provide better patient care while shortening your learning curve. It stands alone as the most convenient, practical, and informative guide available today for those working with burn patients.

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Yes, you can access The Essential Burn Unit Handbook by Jeffrey Roth,William Hughes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Emergency Medicine & Critical Care. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. The Essential Burn Unit Handbook
  2. Body Surface Area Chart
  3. Criteria for Burn Referrals
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Contents
  10. 1 Introduction to the Burn Unit
  11. 2 Pathophysiology
  12. 3 Evaluation, Resuscitation, and Treatment
  13. 4 Admissions and Follow-up Care
  14. 5 Wound Care, Use of Antibiotics, and Control of Burn Wound Sepsis
  15. 6 Nutrition
  16. 7 Inhalation Injury
  17. 8 General (Nonburn) Inpatient Wound Care
  18. 9 Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
  19. 10 Electrical Burns
  20. 11 Chemical Burns
  21. 12 Pediatric Burn Management
  22. Appendix
  23. Index
  24. Notes
  25. Rule of Nines