cover image - Total Burn Care, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9780323883894
Copyright: 2027
Publication Date: 01-20-2026
Page Count: 900
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $293.99

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: 2027
Publication Date: 01-20-2026
Page Count: 900
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $293.99

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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 Sixth 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
  • PART I BURN CARE
    1 A Brief History of Acute Burn Care Management
    2 Teamwork for Total Burn Care: Burn Centers and Multidisciplinary Burn Teams
    3 Epidemiological, Demographic, and Outcome Characteristics of Burns
    4 Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises
    5 Care of Outpatient Burns
    6 Prehospital Management, Transportation, and Emergency Care
    7 Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema
    8 Burn Resuscitation
    9 Burn Wound Evaluation
    10 Treatment of Infection in Burn Patients
    11 Operative Wound Management
    12 Anesthesia for Burn Surgery
    13 The Skin Bank
    14 Skin Substitutes, New Developments
    15 The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury
    16 Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury
    17 Respiratory Care
    18 Hematology, Hemostasis, Thromboprophylaxis, and Transfusion Medicine in Burn Patients
    19 Significance of the Hormonal, Adrenal, and Sympathetic Responses to Burn Injury
    20 Importance of Mineral and Bone Metabolism After Burn
    21 Trace Element, Vitamin, and Electrolyte Homeostasis in Major Burns
    22 Nutritional Needs and Support for the Burn Patient
    23 Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response After Burn Injury
    24 Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure
    25 Acute Renal Failure in Association With Thermal Injury
    26 Critical Care in the Severely Burned: Organ Support and Management of Complications
    27 Burn Nursing
    28 Care of the Burned Pregnant Patient
    29 Care of the Burned Pediatric Patient
    30 Care of Geriatric Patients
    31 Surgical Management of Complications of Burn Injury
    32 Cold-Induced Injury: Frostbite
    33 Chemical Burns
    34 Radiation Injuries and Vesicant Burns
    35 Combined Burn and Other Injuries
    36 Exfoliative Diseases of the Integument and Soft Tissue Necrotizing Infections
    37 Burn Injuries of the Eye
    38 The Burn Problem: A Pathologist’s Perspective
    39 Psychiatric Disorders Associated With Burn Injuries
    40 Burn Rehabilitation Along the Continuum of Care
    41 Musculoskeletal Changes Secondary to Thermal Burns
    PART II BURN RECONSTRUCTION
    42 Principles of Burn Reconstruction
    43 Wound Healing
    44 Abnormal Wound Healing: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hypertrophic Scarring
    45 VAC Therapy for Burn Reconstruction
    46 Preoperative Planning: A Holistic Approach to Burn Reconstruction
    47 Functional Sequelae and Disability Assessment
    48 The Pediatric Burned Patient—Optimizing Acute Burn Care for Prevention of Postburn Sequelae
    49 Advanced Practice Provider Management of the Burn Reconstructive Patient
    50 Skin Substitutes: Surgical Application in Major Burns and Scar Resurfacing
    51 The Evolution of Cell-Based Therapies for Cutaneous Repair
    52 Flap Reconstruction Using Microsurgery
    53 Clinical Lasers and Burn Scar Management
    54 Psychosocial Recovery and Reintegration of Patients With Burn Injuries
    55 Aesthetic Reconstruction in Burn Patients
    56 Burned Scalp/Forehead and Brow
    57 Periorbital Burn Management
    58 Lip, Mouth, Nose, and Face Reconstruction
    59 Total Facial Transplantation
    60 Ear
    61 Reconstruction of the Burned Neck
    62 Reconstruction of Burn Injuries to the Breast and Nipple-Areola Complex
    63 Reconstruction of the Axilla
    64 Reconstruction of the Contracted Elbow Postburn
    65 Reconstruction of the Burned Trunk and Perineum
    66 The Burned Hand
    67 Reconstruction of Burn Deformities of the Lower Extremity
    68 Burn Reconstruction in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  • David Herndon, MD, CEO, Research, Joseph M Still Research Foundation, Augusta, GA, USA and Rajiv Sood, MD, FACS, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Services, Georgia, USA
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