Handbook of Burns Volume 1

List of contributers .- A history of burn care .- Epidemiology and prevention of burns throughout the world .- Prevention of burn injuries .- Burns associated with wars and disasters .- Education in burns .- European practice guidelines for burn care: Minimum level of burn care provision in Europe .- Pre-hospital, fluid and early management, burn wound evaluation .- Medical documentation of burn injuries .- Pathophysiology of burn injury .- Anesthesia for patients with acute burn injuries .-Diagnosis and management of inhalation injury .- Respiratory management .- Organ responses and organ support .- Critical care of thermally injured patient .- Treatment of infection in burns .- Acute treatment of severely burned pediatric patients .- Adult burn management .- Burns in older adults .- Acute management of facial burns .- Hand burns .- Treatment of burns - established and novel Technology .- Wound healing .- Pain management after burn trauma .- Nutrition support for the burn patient .- HBO and burns .- Nursing management of the burn-injured person .- Outpatient burn care .- Electrical injury .- Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of chemical burns .- Necrotizing and exfoliative diseases of the skin .- Frostbite .- Subject index