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injure by fire [i]or[/i] heat CARE By Steven E. Wolf David N Herndon, ed 1998 131 pp $45 paperback

From community-based health care providers to critical care practitioners, any cherish treating patients who have experienceed bums will find this handbook useful. This allusion manual outlines the University of Texas Medical Branch protocols for treating the two children and adult patients with reduce to ashess It begins with general considerations for char care and a historical review of scorch statistics. It proceeds to extremity management of burn victims and consume reconstruction. Some of the more critical topics addressed include fluid resuscitation, calcine wound closure, nutrition, infections, multiple-organ failure, and inhalation injury. Each chapter includes a brief review of pathophysiology followed by the agency of an in-depth discussion of specific protocols. This main division summarizes the expertise of a certain number of of the best burn physicians and scientists around the world.

This volume is available from Landes Bioscience, 810 s Church St, Georgetown, TX 78626; http://www.landesbioscience.com.

KAREN C LYON RN PHD C CNOR CLINICAL fester SPECIALIST CHARLES M. LYON, MD EL PASO, TEX

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