title: Burns.
abstract: During the past 20 yrs, as burn care has evolved as a specialty of surgery, survival and outcome quality have soared. Public expectations for survival and long-term outcomes are at previously unprecedented levels. These changes are the result of a number of advances in aspects of burn care that have occurred in parallel and have fostered increasing regionalization of this resource-intensive activity into fewer specialized centers. These are complex hospitalizations and can be divided into four phases: initial evaluation and resuscitation, initial wound excision and biological closure, definitive wound closure, and rehabilitation and reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Burn Surgery Service, Shriners Burns Hospital, Sumner Redstone Burn Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Sheridan
mesh_terms: D002053:Burn Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002056:Burns / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008875:Middle Aged; D010372:Pediatrics; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*