Full Description
This volume is published with a triple aim: to take a look back over the advances during the ten years of the Mediterranean Burns Club and mark its anniversary; to follow up and strengthen the successful twin ning of burns as a clinical, individual illness problem and fires as a societal, disaster management problem; and to look ahead at the per spectives of burn care and fire prevention in the fast-approaching new century. The occasion also marks the tenth annual presentation of the prestigious G. Whitaker International Burns Prize, to which the Mediterranean Burns Club acts as the scientific fulcrum. The award is now established as the most distinguished recognition in burns science worldwide, and it is gratifying that the contributions of many of the renowned recipients will be found in this book. This is a sequel to The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters, which contained the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters. The book and the conference have fully justified the authors' initial concept that burn specialists, con stantly combatting burn disease and promoting rehabilitation of the victims, especially in mass casualty situations, had for too long remained separate from that other essential sector, the fire-fighting authorities and fire prevention systems, whose aim is also the protection of the individual and the promotion of safety. This long overdue synergism has now become reality, and the present volume strengthens this desirable trend.
Contents
Section I: The burn and fire problem.- Section II: Fire disasters in society.- Section III: Burn prevention.- Section IV: Epidemiology, Geographic pathology.- Section V: Intensive care.- Section VI: Immunology in burns.- Section VII: Complications of burns.- Section VIII: Burn infection care.- Section IX: Burn surgery.- Section X: Biomaterials.- Section XI: Burn scar management.- Section XII: Electrical burns.- Section XIII: Hand burns.- Section XIV: Rehabilitation.- Section XV: Burn centres.- Section XVI: Forest fires.- Section XVII: Industrial fire disasters.- Section XVIII: International cooperation.- Index of Authors.
