This volume covers the entire spectrum of acute burn treatment. Individual chapters deal with basic aspects of different burn mechanisms as well as the acute care of burn patients. Pre-hospital management, critical care and basic concepts of burn surgery related to the acute phase, as well as the use of skin and skin substitutes in early stages of therapy are addressed in this volume. Chapters on supportive therapies such as optimizing nutrition and fluid homeostasis, infection control and treatment, respiratory support and pain management complete the comprehensive approach to the patient in this early stage of treatment, while chapters on epidemiology, prevention and disaster management enable the reader to evaluate the given information in a broader context.

Part 1.History, epidemiology, prevention and education -- A history of burn care. Leopoldo C. Cancio and Steven E. Wolf -- Epidemiology and prevention of burns throughout the world / Michael D. Peck -- Prevention of burn injuries / Anna Arno and Judy Knighton -- Burns associated with wars and disasters / Jonathan B. Lundy and Leopoldo C. Cancio -- Education in burns / Kunaal Jindal and Shahriar Shahrokhi -- European practice guidelines for burn care: Minimum level of burn care provision in Europe / Pavel Brychta -- Part 2. Pre-hospital and initial management of burns. Pre-hospital, fluid and early management, burn wound evaluation / Folke Sjöberg -- Medical documentation of burn injuries / Herbert L. Haller, Michael Giretzlehner, Johannes Dirnberger and Robert Owen -- Pathophysiology of burn injury / Gerd G. Gauglitz and Marc G. Jeschke -- Anesthesia for patients with acute burn injuries / Lee C. Woodson, Edward Sherwood, Alexis McQuitty and Mark D. Talon -- Diagnosis and management of inhalation injury / Tina L. Palmieri and Richard L. Gamelli -- Respiratory management / Robert Cartotto -- Part 3. Acute burn care and therapy. Organ responses and organ support / Kathryn L. Butler and Robert L. Sheridan -- Critical care of thermally injured patient / Mette M. Berger, Shahriar Shahrokhi and Marc G. Jeschke -- Treatment of infection in burns / Gerd G. Gauglitz, Shahriar Shahrokhi and Marc G. Jeschke. Acute treatment of severely burned pediatric patients / Gerd G. Gauglitz and Marc G. Jeschke -- Adult burn management / Peter Dziewulski, Jorge-Leon Villapalos and Joan Pere Barret -- Burns in older adults / Tam N. Pham -- Acute management of facial burns / Peter Dziewulski and Jorge-Leon Villapalos -- Hand burns / Benjamin P. Amis and Matthew B. Klein -- Treatment of burns -- established and novel technology / Ludwik K. Branski, Manuel Dibildox, Shahriar Shahrokhi and Marc G. Jeschke -- Wound healing / David A. Brown and Nicole S. Gibran -- Pain management after burn trauma / Richard Girtler and Burkhard Gustorff -- Nutrition support for the burn patient / Amalia Cochran, Jeffrey R. Saffle and Caran Graves -- HBO and burns / Harald Andel -- Nursing management of the burn-injured person / Judy Knighton and Mary Jako -- Outpatient burn care / Bernd Hartmann and Christian Ottomann -- Part 4. Non-thermal burns. Electrical injury / Brett D. Arnoldo, John L. Hunt and Gary F. Purdue -- Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of chemical burns / Leila Kolios and Günter Germann -- Necrotizing and exfoliative diseases of the skin / David A. Sieber, Gerard J. Abood and Richard L. Gamelli -- Frostbite / Paul Kraincuk, Maike Keck, David Lumenta and Lars-Peter Kamolz.