Introduction Burn survivors may deal with diverse psychosocial issues in the recovery from a major burn injury. Common concerns include adapting to physical limitations and permanent changes; dealing with grief and loss; experiencing traumatic stress, anxiety, pain, sleep disturbance, depression,…
Introduction All members of the burn treatment team should have a basic knowledge of psychiatric problems because they commonly occur and often play a central role in burn recovery. It is useful to have mental health professionals as integrated members…
Introduction The words “burn injury” trigger, for almost anyone, immediate and vivid images of excruciating pain and suffering. Children are conditioned from early childhood that burn injuries are painful and can cause great harm. At the time of the first…
Introduction Advances in acute burn care during the past 25 years in terms of decreased mortality and decreased length of hospital stay have been truly remarkable. Current and historical perspectives on burn mortality can be found in preceding chapters. In…
PowerPoint Presentation Online Introduction Forensic medicine has made tremendous advancements in developing scientific measures to identify child maltreatment and intentional injuries. Despite these advancements, deliberate injury by burning is often unrecognized. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Introduction Burns are a leading cause of accidental injury and death in the United States and worldwide, and they can often raise profound concerns about autonomy, mortality, quality of life, and suffering. In seeking optimum health for each patient, contemporary…
History of Laser and Intense Pulse Light Albert Einstein was the first to describe the theoretical physics of the laser in 1917. He described the interaction of atoms and molecules with electromagnetic energy in terms of the spontaneous absorption and…
Introduction The severity of injury and deformity from burn trauma range from relatively minor to severe. The psychological and social impact of sequelae do not parallel the severity of the deformity; even minor disfigurements can have severe psychologic and social…
Introduction Early excision of major burns has been shown to improve patient outcomes. The lack of available donor sites from which to harvest conventional autologous skin grafts to achieve wound closure is challenging. Burke and Yannas in the early 1960s…
Introduction Severe cases [of electrical injury] coming for reconstruction present a formidable problem of flexion contracture and loss of many tendons and nerves, new pedicled skin and grafted-in tendons and nerves usually being necessary. One encounters inside the limb the…