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This chapter was designed to give the surgeon without much burn experience some guidance for initial and subsequent burn care. It is meant to serve as a reference, explaining not only the basics of burn wound resuscitation but also identifying and recommending therapy for the commonest problems, both immediate and late, faced by the surgeon when caring for burn patients. Finally it examines burn mechanisms with specific required care for successful management.

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  1. Director of Emergency General Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Gary Vercruysse

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  1. Brigham and Womens’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ali Salim

  2. Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

    Carlos Brown

  3. Division of Trauma Surgery, Rm C5L100, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Kenji Inaba

  4. Trauma and Emergency Surgery Service, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Matthew J. Martin

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Vercruysse, G. (2018). Burns. In: Salim, A., Brown, C., Inaba, K., Martin, M. (eds) Surgical Critical Care Therapy . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71712-8_54

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