title: Practical burns management Practical burns management Harvey J Kemble B Lamb Hodder & Stoughton 262pp £9.95 0-340-36997-3.
abstract: J Harvey Kemble and Brenda Lamb aim to equip staff without a specialist knowledge in the care of burns patients with practical information so that they can give the correct care. The authors cover burns patients ranging from those requiring first aid in an A&E department to those needing admission to an intensive care unit. This seemed to be a very ambitious aim for any book, so I decided to test its claims.