title: Critical care of burn patients. New approaches to old problems.
abstract: Recent publications on treatment options in critically ill patients change beliefs and clinical behaviors. Many dogmas, which the modern management of critical illness relies on, have been questioned. These publications (consensus articles, reviews, meta-analysis and original papers) concern some fundamental issues of critical care: interventions in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), hemodynamic monitoring, glucose control and nutritional support and revise our views on many key points of critical care of burn patients.
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiologists-Intensivist, Papanikolaou General Hospital, Burn ICU, Hadzipanagiotidi 2, Thessaloniki, Greece. Electronic address: alavrenti@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Athina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lavrentieva
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000379:methods*; D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000097:blood; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000379:methods; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods*; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D019344:Lactic Acid
keywords: Burns; Critical care; New approaches; Treatment