
Burn Rehabilitation, An Issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 34-4 - October 10, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Karen J. Kowalske
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 0 4 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 0 4 2 - 7
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, guest editor Dr. Karen Kowalske brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Burn Rehabilitation. Top experts in PM&R discuss key topics such as inpatient rehabilitation; hand burns; exercise; pediatrics and geriatrics; psychological issues; outcomes; and more.
- Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including acute care of burns; early mobilization; hypertrophic scar; neuromuscular complications; reconstruction; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on burn rehabilitation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Assessment and Management of Acute Burn Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Patient evaluation
- Transfer to specialty burn care
- Resuscitation
- Failing resuscitations
- Wound Management
- Consequences of Hypermetabolism
- Special considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Burn Patient Metabolism and Nutrition
- Key points
- Introduction
- Nutrition and the hypermetabolic response
- Parenteral versus enteral nutrition
- Nutritional support initiation
- Caloric requirements
- Substrates
- Fats
- Protein
- Micronutrients
- Formulas
- Monitoring nutritional support
- Pre-burn nutritional status effect on outcomes
- Overfeeding
- Nutritional support during posthospital rehabilitation
- Summary
- Clinical pearls
- Early Mobilization, Early Ambulation, and Burn Therapy in the Acute Hospital Setting
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Edema
- Critical care management
- Early mobilization
- Early ambulation
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Following Burn Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation for inpatient rehabilitation
- Treatment
- Therapy considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Rehabilitation Management of the Burned Hand
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy of the hand and impact of burn injury
- Phases of burn rehabilitation
- Evaluation of the burned hand
- Pain and sensitivity with hand burns
- Neuropathy in hand burns
- Edema management
- Orthotic use in hand burns
- Range of motion
- Scar management
- Pediatric hand burns
- Outcome Assessment for Hand Burns
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Hypertrophic Scar
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Burn Injury Complications Impacting Rehabilitation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Contracture
- Peripheral nerve injury
- Heterotopic ossification
- Amputation
- Altered skin physiology
- Pain and pruritis
- Dysphagia
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Key Exercise Concepts in the Rehabilitation from Severe Burns
- Key points
- Essentials of exercise rehabilitation training during the in-patient stage
- Future directions
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Special Considerations for Pediatric Burn Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Factors Associated with the Rehabilitation of the Older Adult Burn Patient
- Key points
- Background
- Effects of age on burn depth and wound healing
- Frailty
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Psychological Issues
- Key points
- Practical application
- Acute phase
- Middle phase
- Reintegration phase
- Clinics care points
- A Narrative Review of Outcomes in Burn Rehabilitation Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
- Key points
- Introduction
- Body functions and structures
- Activities and participation
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Holistic Approach to Burn Reconstruction and Scar Rehabilitation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Timing and readiness for burn reconstruction
- Special considerations with children
- Reconstruction challenges after burn injury
- Common techniques for burn reconstruction
- Common burn reconstruction problems and solutions
- Postreconstruction surgery rehabilitation
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 34-4
- Published: October 10, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443130410
- eBook ISBN: 9780443130427
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Karen J. Kowalske
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center