Total burn care

A brief history of acute burn care management -- Teamwork for total burn care : burn centers and multidisciplinary burn teams -- Epidemiological, demographic and outcome characteristics of burns -- Prevention of burn injuries -- Burn management in disasters and humanitarian crises -- Care of outpatient burns -- Prehospital management, transportation, and emergency care -- Pathophysiology of burn shock and burn edema -- Burn resuscitation -- Evaluation of the burn wound : management decisions -- Treatment of infection in burn patients -- Operative wound management -- Anesthesia for burned patients -- The skin bank -- Skin substitutes and 'the next level' -- The pathophysiology of inhalation injury -- Diagnosis and treatment of inhalation injury -- Respiratory care -- The systemic inflammatory response syndrome -- Host defense antibacterial effector cells influenced by massive burns -- Biomarkers in burn patient care -- Hematology, hemostasis, thromboprophylaxis, and transfusion medicine in burn patients -- Significance of the hormonal, adrenal, and sympathetic responses to burn injury -- The hepatic response to thermal injury -- Importance of mineral and bone metabolism after burn -- Micronutrient homeostasis -- Hypophosphatemia -- Nutritional needs and support for the burned patient -- Modulation of the hypermetabolic response after burn injury -- Etiology and prevention of multisystem organ failure -- Acute renal failure in association with thermal injury -- Critical care in the severely burned : organ support and management of complications -- Burn nursing -- Care of the burned pregnant patient -- Special considerations of age : the pediatric burned patient -- Care of geriatric patients -- Surgical management of complications of burn injury -- Electrical injuries -- Cold-induced injury : frostbite -- Chemical burns -- Radiation injuries and vesicant burns -- Exfoliative diseases of the integument and soft tissue necrotizing infections -- Burn injuries of the eye -- The burn problem : a pathologist's perspective -- Molecular and cellular basis of hypertrophic scarring -- Pathophysiology of the burn scar -- Burn rehabilitation along the continuum of care -- Musculoskeletal changes secondary to thermal burns -- Reconstruction of bodily deformities in burn patients : an overview -- Reconstruction of the head and neck after burns -- Management of postburn alopecia -- Trunk deformity reconstruction -- Management of contractural deformities involving the shoulder (axilla), elbow, hip, and knee joints in burned patients -- Acute and reconstructive care of the burned hand -- Management of burn injuries of the perineum -- Reconstruction of burn deformities of the lower extremity -- Electrical injury : reconstructive problems -- The role of alternative wound substitutes in major burn wounds and burn scar resurfacing -- Aesthetic reconstruction in burn patients -- Laser for burn scar treatment -- The ethical dimension of burn care -- Intentional burn injuries -- Functional sequelae and disability assessment -- Management of pain and other discomforts in burned patients -- Psychiatric disorders associated with burn injury -- Psychosocial recovery and reintegration of patients with burn injuries."