Only a minority of burn injured patients will require intensive care unit (ICU) admission and
treatment. A burn is considered “major” when involving more than 20% BSA, with further …

Despite better prevention, burns remain a major cause of traumatic injury world-wide
affecting all ages. Nevertheless, survival after extensive burn injury has improved …

As burn care has improved, patients with severe burn injury have had improved survival.
However, severe burn injury requires care in specialized intensive care unit (ICU) due to the …

The continuum of care for burn patients consists of four overlapping phases:(1) initial
assessment and triage,(2) acute burn-shock resuscitation,(3) wound closure, and (4) …

Severely burned patient survival has significantly improved over the last decades, and a
major contributing factor was protocolized critical care medicine. This highly specialized …

This interdisciplinary account provides an integrated and practical guide to the management
and treatment of burns. Experts from all the major disciplines involved in critical care focus …

Severe burns represent around 436,000 ambulatory care visits to hospital emergency
departments in the United States [1]. A significant portion of these burns are minor; …

Thermal injury of humans causes arguably the most severe perturbations in physiology that
can be experienced. These physiologic derangements start immediately and can persist in …

The treatment of thermal injuries began to change during the latter half of the nineteenth
century with the development of the first burn centers and physician scientists dedicated to …

Critically ill burned patients experience intensive injury associated with severe
cardiovascular, immune, and metabolic disturbances. Management of severely burned …