Early recognition of the need for escharotomy and other decompressive therapies is
imperative for experienced burn providers, as to avoid reversible tissue ischemia and …

Objectives To provide recommendations to facilitate the management of severe thermal
burns during the acute phase in adults and children. Design A committee of 20 experts was …

Objectives: Describe the parkland formula and its use in resuscitation of burn patients.
Review complications of major burns. Summarize the types of fluids used to resuscitate burn …

Burn injuries commonly result in serious sequelae (such as skin contractures) in surviving
patients, for which no single optimal solution is known. The goal of this study was to …

Background Burn-induced compartment syndrome is a severe sequela after circumferential
burns of the extremities and is avoidable by immediate release of the underlying pressure …

Objectives: Summarize the indications for an escharotomy. Describe the technique used for
escharotomy. Identify the complications of escharotomy. Explain how interprofessional …

Plastic surgeons are essential members of the multidisciplinary burn team. Burn injuries
remain common, and plastic surgeons have an opportunity to develop and innovate the field …

Burn injuries come in a wide variety of presentations, depending on the size and depth of
the thermal insult, concurrent traumatic or inhalation injury, as well as the associated …

This is a recommended management algorithm from the Western Trauma Association
addressing the management of victims of burn injury. Because there is a paucity of …

Background: Removal of the eschar has gradually become a consensus on treatments of
deep dermal necrosis after skin trauma in recent years, whereas exaggerated scar …