title: Special problems in burns.
abstract: Burn units provide a unique set of resources to patients with complex wounds, sepsis, and organ failures. This resource set is useful in a number of traumatic, infectious, and medical conditions as well. Further, many burn patients have sustained simultaneous non-burn trauma which will be managed in burn programs.
authors.affiliation: Boston Shriners Hospital for Children, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: rsheridan@mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Sheridan
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California, University of California, Davis, 2425 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Greenhalgh
mesh_terms: D001753:Blast Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D003444:Crush Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D004820:Epidermolysis Bullosa / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D018461:Soft Tissue Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D013262:Stevens-Johnson Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Blast injury; Burns; Combined burns and trauma; Crush injury; High voltage electrical injury; Toxic epidermal necrolysis; Trauma