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The Management of Burns and Fire Disasters: Perspectives 2000

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Table of contents (101 chapters)

  1. Fire Disasters in Society

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This volume is published with a triple aim: to take a look back over the advances during the ten years of the Mediterranean Burns Club and mark its anniversary; to follow up and strengthen the successful twin­ ning of burns as a clinical, individual illness problem and fires as a societal, disaster management problem; and to look ahead at the per­ spectives of burn care and fire prevention in the fast-approaching new century. The occasion also marks the tenth annual presentation of the prestigious G. Whitaker International Burns Prize, to which the Mediterranean Burns Club acts as the scientific fulcrum. The award is now established as the most distinguished recognition in burns science worldwide, and it is gratifying that the contributions of many of the renowned recipients will be found in this book. This is a sequel to The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters, which contained the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters. The book and the conference have fully justified the authors' initial concept that burn specialists, con­ stantly combatting burn disease and promoting rehabilitation of the victims, especially in mass casualty situations, had for too long remained separate from that other essential sector, the fire-fighting authorities and fire prevention systems, whose aim is also the protection of the individual and the promotion of safety. This long overdue synergism has now become reality, and the present volume strengthens this desirable trend.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Plastic Surgery and Burn Centre, Mediterranean Burns Club, Palermo, Italy

    M. Masellis

  • Emergency Relief Operations, World Health Organization, Mediterranean Burns Club, Italy

    S. W. A. Gunn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Management of Burns and Fire Disasters: Perspectives 2000

  • Editors: M. Masellis, S. W. A. Gunn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0361-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8887-6Published: 31 January 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6647-1Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0361-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 605

  • Topics: Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Plastic Surgery

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