Handbook of Burns

Pavel Brychta, Department of Burns and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic and President of European Burns Association (EBA) Raymund E. Horch, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical Center, Erlangen, Germany Marc J. Jeschke, M.D., PhD, FACS, FRCSC, Director, Ross Tilley Burn Center, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute; Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada Lars P. Kamolz, M.D., M.Sc. Section of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria Markus Kuentscher, MD, Evangelische Elisabeth Klinik Krankenhausbetriebs gGmbH, Berlin Folke Sjöberg, M.D. Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery and Intensive Care, Linköping University Hospital, Sweden; President of European Burns Association Steven E. Wolf, M.D., Director of the Burn Center at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA

Vol I: Burn injuries and their psychosocial and longtime consequences.- Burn wound healing, documentation, scar management and rehabilitation.- Burn reconstruction, principles.- Burn reconstruction, specific.- Burn reconstruction, future perspectives.- Vol II: History, epidemiology, prevention and education.- Pre-hospital and initial management of burns.- Acute burn care and therapy.- Non-thermal burns.