Overview
Serves as a reference book on management of complex, acute care in burn patients
Presents the latest research and treatment
Edited and written by leading authorities in burn care
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Table of contents (48 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History, Prevention, Education, Quality, and Team Building
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Pre-hospital and Initial Management of Burns
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Critical Care and Acute Phase After Burn
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About this book
Please also have a look at "Handbook of Burns Volume 2 - Reconstruction and Rehabilitation 2nd edition".
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Dr. Marc Jeschke received his MD from the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany, in 1994 and his PhD in experimental surgery (molecular biology) from the University of Regensburg, Germany, in 2002. Dr. Jeschke was appointed director of the Ross Tilley Burn Centre (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) in 2010. Currently, he holds appointments in the department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Immunology. He holds the chair of burn research and is a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Univ. Professor Dr. med. Lars-Peter Kamolz is a professor and director of the Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, LKH- University Hospital Graz - Medical University Graz, Austria. He is also head of the Research Unit for Safety in Health at the Medical University Garz, Austria.
Professor Folke Sjöberg received his medical degree from the Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden in 1983 and his PhD from the same university in 1990. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Burn Center there. Professor Sjöberg has been a professor of Burn Surgery/Critical Care at the University of Linköping, since 2000. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific articles in international journals.
Steven E. Wolf graduated in medicine from the University of Texas, USA, in 1990. In 2018, he was named the Chief of Staff of the Shriners Hospital for Children-Galveston and professor and vice-chairman for finance at the University of Texas Medical Branch in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Wolf also holds the Joseph D and Lee Hage Jamail Distinguished Endowed Chair. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Burns" since 2004.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Burns Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Acute Burn Care
Editors: Marc G. Jeschke, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Folke Sjöberg, Steven E. Wolf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18940-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18939-6Published: 14 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18942-6Published: 14 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18940-2Published: 29 October 2019
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: IX, 594
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 141 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plastic Surgery