cover image - Total Burn Care, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9780323883894
Copyright: 2026
Page Count: 900
Imprint: Elsevier
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Total Burn Care, 6th Edition

by David Herndon, MD and Rajiv Sood, MD, FACS

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cover image - Total Burn Care, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9780323883894
Copyright: 2026
Page Count: 900
Imprint: Elsevier
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From resuscitation through reconstruction and rehabilitation, Total Burn Care walks you through every step of the burn management process. In this updated 6th Edition, leading authority Dr. David N. Herndon is joined by new co-editor and plastic surgeon, Dr. Rajiv Sood, to provide detailed procedural guidelines that benefit everyone on the burn care team. This integrated, multidisciplinary text remains an indispensable resource for general and plastic surgeons, intensivists, anesthetists, and nurses, offering practical guidance on meeting the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every patient.
    • Features abundant, full-color clinical and operative photos, procedural illustrations, diagnostic images, charts, graphs, and diagnostic and treatment algorithms throughout.
    • Discusses key topics such as infection control, early burn coverage, occupational physical exercise, respiratory therapy, ventilator management, nutritional needs and support, burn nursing, care of outpatient burns, and much more.
    • Offers new and expanded coverage of reconstruction and plastic surgery, rehabilitation methods, and new techniques such as laser therapies for scar reduction and new bio med options, fluid resuscitation, organ support for burn patients, necrotizing soft tissue infections, and TEN/SJS.
    • Takes a realistic approach to complications that could arise in the treatment of burn patients.
    • Summarizes key points at the beginning of each chapter for quick reference.
    • Provides access to 15+ procedural operative videos and PowerPoint presentations on topics ranging from alopecia and anesthesia to radiation and treatment of infection—ideal for teaching and presenting.
    • Covers special populations such as elderly, pregnant, and pediatric patients.
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.
    • Expanded Reconstructive section – more plastic surgery focus
    • New techniques – laser therapies for scar reduction and new bio med options, fluid resuscitation, organ support for burn patients, necrotizing soft tissue infections, and TEN/SJS
    • Decision making and treatment algorithms
    • New - plastic surgeon as co editor
    • Multidisciplinary team approach
  • 1. History of Treatments of Burns

    2. Teamwork for Total Burns Care: Achievements, Directions, and Hopes

    3. Epidemiological, Demographic, and Outcome Characteristics of Burn Injury

    4. Prevention of Burn Injuries

    5. Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises

    6. Care of Outpatient Burns

    7. Pre-Hospital Management, Transportation, and Emergency Care

    8. Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema

    9. Fluid Resuscitation and Early Management

    10. Evaluation of the Burn Ward Management Decisions

    11. Wound Care

    12. Treatment of Infection in Burns

    13. Operative Wound Management

    14. Anesthesia for Burned Patients

    15. The Skin Bank

    16. Alternative Wound Coverings

    17. AlloDerm

    18. The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury

    19. Diagnosis & Treatment of Inhalation Injury

    20. Barotrauma

    21. Respiratory Care

    22. The Systemic Inflammatory Response System

    23. The Immunological Response and Strategies for Intervention

    24. Hematologic, Hematopoietic, and Acute Phase Responses

    25. Significance of the Adrenal and Sympathetic Response to Burn Injury

    26. The Hepatic Response to a Thermal Injury

    27. Effects of Burn Injury on Bone and Mineral Metabolism

    28. Vitamin and Trace Element Homeostasis Following Severe Burn Injury

    29. Hypophosphatemia

    30. Nutritional Support of the Burned Patient

    31. Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response after Burn Injury

    32. Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure

    33. Renal Failure in Association with Thermal Injuries

    34. Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications

    35. Burn Nursing

    36. The Pediatric Burned Patient

    37. Care of Geriatric Patients

    38. Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury

    39. Electrical Injuries

    40. Electrical Injury: Reconstructive Problems

    41. Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite

    42. Chemical Burns

    43. Radiation Injuries, Vesicant Burns, and Mass Casualties

    44. Exfoliative and Necrotizing Diseases of the Skin

    45. The Burn Problem: A Pathologist's Perspective

    46. Wound Healing

    47. Mollecular ad Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring

    48. Pathophysiology of the Burn Scar

    49. Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient

    50. Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns

    51. Mitigation of the Burn-Induced Hypermetabolic Response During Convalescence

    52. Overview of Burn Reconstruction

    53. Reconstruction of the Burned Hand

    54. Reconstruction of the Head and Neck

    55. Reconstruction of the Burned Scalp Using Tissue Expansion

    56. Management of the Contractural Deformities Involving the Axilla (Shoulder), Elbow, Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints in Burn Patients

    57. Reconstruction of the Burned Breast

    58. Management of Burn Injuries of the Perineum

    59. Reconstruction of Burn Deformities of the Foot and Ankle

    60. The Ethical Dimension of Burn Care

    61. Maltreatment by Burning

    62. Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment

    63. Cost-Containment and Outcome Measures

    64. Management of Pain and Other Discomforts in Burned Patients

    65. Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Burn Injury

    66. Psychological Recovery & Reintegration of Patients with Burn Injuries

  • David Herndon, MD and Rajiv Sood, MD, FACS, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive ServicesChief of Plastic and Reconstructive Services

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