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While management of burns has been taking place for thousands of years, it has been the last half-century that significant strides have changed the outcome of patients suffering from this devastating injury. The important technological changes that have played an integral part in these advances are many, and include codification of burn center transfer criteria and development of safe systems for transfer through transportation advances. Telemedicine has led to improved ongoing assessment of patients from distances from the burn center. Burn providers have also been leading the vanguard for the increasing use of decision support technologies in resuscitation, provision of nutrition, and detection and treatment of infection. Other recent technologic advances in burns include bioengineering approaches to determination of burn severity through wound depth determination and mapping, novel wound coverage techniques, and new grafting techniques to minimize morbidity in the severely ill. The clinical condition of burns lends itself easily to the development and utilization of new technologies because the clinical event is relatively homogenous and common, which we believe will continue well into the future. This work reviews recent advances and reports on new vistas which should be addressed in the future.
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AbdelFattah, K.R., Wolf, S.E. (2015). Advances in Burn Care. In: Latifi, R., Rhee, P., Gruessner, R. (eds) Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2671-8_16
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