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Using an integrated, "team" approach, leading authority David N. Herndon, MD, FACS explains how to meet the clinical, physical, psychological, and social needs of every burn patient - and thus achieve optimal recovery and rehabilitation. The 3rd Edition of this definitive reference covers all of the latest advances in the treatment of burns...features new a full-color layout with new color illustrations and clinical photographs.

• Compiled and edited by one of the world's leading authorities on the management of patients with burns.
  
• Discusses the management of burn patients from their initial presentation through long-term rehabilitation.
  
• Addresses the clinical, physical, and social needs of the burn patient and emphasizes a multi-faceted, "team approach" to treatment.
  
• Covers how to devise integrated treatment programs for different groups of patients, such as elderly and pediatric patients.

• Uses color illustrations and clinical photographs throughout for the first time-incorporating the illustrative strengths of Barret & Herndon's Color Atlas of Burn Care to provide you with a single source of definitive guidance on diagnosis and management.
  
• Presents new chapters on barotrauma and inhalation injury · the tissue bank · the role of exercise · and the use of dermal templates and burn scar resurfacing.
  
• Offers fresh perspectives from more than 50% new authors.
  

With more than 100 additional contributing experts