Identification of incompetent, drastically burned candidates for comfort care, participants in
reaching the comfort care decision, steps in the comfort care protocol, and the problems of …

Modern burn care often leads to the dilemma of what should or should not be done for
patients with clinical deterioration and organ system failure who fail to respond to therapy …

Modern intensive care is capable of keeping burned patients alive for substantial periods of
time, despite burn severity with an 'unprecedented'or a marginal probability of survival …

HEN SERIOUS illness occurs, patients commonly exalt their physicians. Even an individual
who habitually expresses great dissatisfaction with physicians and health care in general …

[5)5% Page 1 [5)5% Life or Death for Burn Patients? The issue of life versus death is one with
which we in the medical profession are familiar. A discussion of this topic brings to mind such …

Age, burn size, inhalation injury, and comorbid diseases are important factors in predicting
survival of patients with burn injuries. These same factors are important hi attempting to …

It is with great pride and humility that I address you today. Pridc bccausc I fecla grcat sense
of honor in being clected to the presidency of an organization with which I havc bcen …

The authors of this editorial, as experienced burn surgeons and physicians, desire to bring
to the attention of the burn community their experiences in working in collaboration with a …

The United States continues to have more home fires than any other country. The enormous
number of household disasters, accidents in cars and factories leads to several hundred …

Successive improvements in burn care have steadily increased the survivability of many
major burn injuries, however for some patients with the most severe injuries comfort care …