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Rehabilitation and scar management

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Survival was once the key parameter of success in managing serious burns, but due to improvements concerning burn care this has changed tremendously. Today, however, the aim of all treatment activities is the return of burn patients back into their private and social life under conditions, which allow independence and social sovereignty. This goal has extended the traditional role of the burn care team beyond wound closure.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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

  2. Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, State Hospital Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

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

  3. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Toronto, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

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

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

  2. 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.

  3. Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Plastisch- und Handchirurgische Klinik, Erlangen, Germany

    Raymund E. Horch M.D., Ph.D.

  4. Evangelische Elisabeth Klinik Krankenhausbetriebs gGmbH, Berlin, Germany

    Markus Küntscher M.D., Ph.D.

  5. Prednosta Kliniky popálenin, a rekonstrukcní chirurgie, FN Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavel Brychta M.D., Ph.D., C.Sc.

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Kamolz, LP., Jeschke, M.G. (2012). Rehabilitation and scar management. In: Kamolz, LP., Jeschke, M.G., Horch, R.E., Küntscher, M., Brychta, P. (eds) Handbook of Burns. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0315-9_9

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