Burn injuries in firefighters.
The authors cover the care of burn injuries from start to finish, beginning with a discussion of immediate intervention and concluding with a look at psychosocial aspects of burns. Topics in the middle include early management, evaluation of the patient and classification of the burn's severity, burn resuscitation, the pathophysiology of smoke inhalation, dressing of burn wounds, escharotomies and fasciotomies, surgical management, and rehabilitation.
Division of Burn Services, Department of Trauma, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Cimino
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Krosner
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Hanumadass
D002056:Burns / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D002059:Burns, Inhalation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D011379:Prognosis; D015208:Smoke Inhalation Injury / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome