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Pediatric Burns

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The basic principles of burn care are similar in adults and children, but some of the specific physiologic and technical details vary in clinically important ways. This chapter will review these specific practical components of burn care in which clinically important differences between adults and children exist.

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  1. Boston Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert L. Sheridan

  2. Division of Burns, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert L. Sheridan

  3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert L. Sheridan

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  1. Ross Tilley Burn Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

  2. Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz

  3. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Folke Sjöberg

  4. Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Steven E. Wolf

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Sheridan, R.L. (2020). Pediatric Burns. In: Jeschke, M., Kamolz, LP., Sjöberg, F., Wolf, S. (eds) Handbook of Burns Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18940-2_29

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