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Total Burn Care

  • 5th Edition - October 10, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: David N. Herndon
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Trauma Surgery**Recent advances in research have resulted in tremendous changes in burn management… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Trauma Surgery**

Recent advances in research have resulted in tremendous changes in burn management. Stay fully up to date with the new edition of Total Burn Care, by leading authority Dr. David N. Herndon. Detailed procedural guidelines and video clips walk you through every step of the process, from resuscitation through reconstruction and rehabilitation. Everyone on the burn care team, including general and plastic surgeons, intensivists, anesthestists, and nurses, will benefit from this integrated, multidisciplinary guide to safe and effective burn management.

Key features

  • Discusses infection control, early burn coverage, occupational physical exercise, respiratory therapy, and ventilator management
  • Summarizes key points at the beginning of each chapter for quick reference
  • Uses an integrated, team approach to help you meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every patient

Readership

General and Plastic Surgeons

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 30, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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David N. Herndon

Affiliations and expertise
Director of Burn Services; Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics, Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair in Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch; Chief of Staff & Director of Research, Shriners Burns Hospital for Children, Galveston, TX

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