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Burns and Inhalational Injury

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Burns are one of the most feared and misunderstood traumatic injuries. They are a breed of trauma in which a patient can come in talking and yet succumb to their injuries within 24–48 h if the physician is not diligent. This chapter is meant to provide a guidebook for those who do not treat burns every day. It is for the physician who finds himself or herself in over their head and having to take care of a severely burned patient for the first several days following injury. We will tell you how to stabilize and resuscitate your patient, initiate wound care, and initially treat inhalational injuries so that your patient can be delivered to a burn center with the best possible chance of an excellent outcome.

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Special thanks to Dr. Gary Purdue and Sharon Lauderbach for their input and assistance in the preparation of this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University, 1542 Tulane Ave. Rm 734, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA

    Jennifer Mooney

  2. Division of Burns/Trauma/Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, E5.508A, Dallas, TX, 75390-9158, USA

    Herb A. Phelan

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  1. Professor of Surgery Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA

    George C. Velmahos

  2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Milpark Hospital Academic Trauma Centre and Leratong Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Elias Degiannis

  3. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Dietrich Doll

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Mooney, J., Phelan, H.A. (2017). Burns and Inhalational Injury. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_69

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