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Treatment of infection in burns

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Handbook of Burns

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Infections remain a leading cause of death in burn patients. For patients with burn size greater than 40 % TBSA, 75 % of all deaths are due to infection [1]. Many features unique to burn patients make diagnosis and management of infection especially difficult. Burn injury represents the most extreme endpoint along the spectrum of traumatic injury and as such is associated with profound alterations in host defense mechanisms and immune function. These derangements predispose thermally injured patients to local and systemic invasion by microbial pathogens.

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  1. Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Frauenlobstraße 9-11, 80337, Munich, Germany

    Gerd G. Gauglitz M.D., MMS

  2. Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, ON, Canada

    Shahriar Shahrokhi & Marc G. Jeschke

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  1. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Plastische, Aesthetische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie, Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz M.D., M.Sc.

  3. Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery and Intensive Care, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

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Gauglitz, G.G., Shahrokhi, S., Jeschke, M.G. (2012). Treatment of infection in burns. In: Jeschke, M.G., Kamolz, LP., Sjöberg, F., Wolf, S.E. (eds) Handbook of Burns. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0348-7_15

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