Total Burn Care 3rd edition by David N. Herndon explains how to meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every burn patient - and thus achieve optimal recovery and rehabilitation. The 3rd Edition of this definitive reference covers all of the latest advances in the treatment of burns... features new a full-color layout with new color illustrations and clinical photographs.
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David Herndon, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
Book Details
Book features:
- Compiled and edited by one of the world's leading authorities on the management of patients with burns.
- Discusses the management of burn patients from their initial presentation through long-term rehabilitation.
- Addresses the clinical, physical, and social needs of the burn patient and emphasizes a multi-faceted, "team approach" to treatment.
- Covers how to devise integrated treatment programs for different groups of patients, such as elderly and pediatric patients.
- Uses color illustrations and clinical photographs throughout for the first time-incorporating the illustrative strengths of Barret & Herndon's Color Atlas of Burn Care to provide you with a single source of definitive guidance on diagnosis and management.
- Presents new chapters on barotrauma and inhalation injury • the tissue bank • the role of exercise • and the use of dermal templates and burn scar resurfacing.
- Offers fresh perspectives from more than 50% new authors.
- With more than 100 additional contributing experts.
David Herndon, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 880 pages
- Publisher: Saunders; 3 edition (May 23, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416032746
- ISBN-13: 9781416032748
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9 x 1.9 inches