title: Management of burn wounds.
abstract: Small and moderate scalds in toddlers are still the most frequent thermal injuries the pediatric surgeons have to face today. Over the last years, surgical treatment of these patients has changed in many aspects. Due to new dressing materials and new surgical treatment strategies that are particularly suitable for children, today, far better functional and aesthetic long-term results are possible. While small and moderate thermal injuries can be treated in most European pediatric surgical departments, the severely burned child must be transferred to a specialized, ideally pediatric, burn center, where a well-trained multidisciplinary team under the leadership of a (ideally pediatric) burn surgeon cares for these highly demanding patients. In future, tissue engineered full thickness skin analogues will most likely play an important role, in pediatric burn as well as postburn reconstructive surgery.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Burn Center, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Clemens
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schiestl
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meuli
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trop
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Neuhaus
mesh_terms: D002053:Burn Units; D002056:Burns / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D054843:Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy; D009779:Occlusive Dressings; D010360:Patient Transfer; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D017768:Skin, Artificial