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The Management of Burns and Fire Disasters: Perspectives 2000

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Management of Fire Disasters: Doctors in or Patients Out?
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    Chapter 2 History and evolution of surgical treatment of burns
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    Chapter 3 The maturity of society and disaster preparedness/prevention
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    Chapter 4 Forest Fires and Related Accidents in the Social Context
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    Chapter 5 Ethical problems in mass disasters
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    Chapter 6 Terminology of Burns and Fire Disasters
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    Chapter 7 Basic Principles and Paths for Perfecting the Care of Severely Burned Patients
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    Chapter 8 Risk Assessment of Fire and Explosion Disasters: a Systematic Approach
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    Chapter 9 Fire disaster Management
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    Chapter 10 University Hospital Fire Disaster — Lessons to Learn
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    Chapter 11 Organization of Emergency Rescue
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    Chapter 12 The Main Tasks in Offering Medical Aid to a Burned Patient in the Pre-hospital Stage
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    Chapter 13 The Role of a Tissue Bank in Disaster Planning
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    Chapter 14 Civilian and Military Burn Injuries: a Comparative Study
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    Chapter 15 The Army Medical Corps and Its Response in Fire Disasters: Ultralight Field Units
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    Chapter 16 Medical strategy and Tactics for Fire Disasters in Russia
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    Chapter 17 Toxicological Management of Fires
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    Chapter 18 Disaster Medicine Exercise
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    Chapter 19 The ARGO Satellite System: Severely Burned Patients Network
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    Chapter 20 Planning and Management of Rescue Operations in the Event of Fire in a City
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    Chapter 21 Emergency Medical Services: Rescue Potential for Mass Casualties in Urban Fire Disasters
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    Chapter 22 The Use of a Multimedia System in Domestic Burn Prevention Campaigns
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    Chapter 23 A Burn Prevention Programme
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    Chapter 24 Burn Injuries in Children
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    Chapter 25 Burns Prevention in a Paediatric Population
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    Chapter 26 In-depth Investigation of the Causes and Prevention of Minor Burns Treated at a Turkish Burn Centre
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    Chapter 27 Burns in Russia: The Statistics and Organization of Specialized Medical Care
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    Chapter 28 Domestic Burns Due to Butane Gas Explosion in Algeria
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    Chapter 29 City Fires: Group Burn Trauma
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    Chapter 30 Analysis of 1005 Burn Patients Treated in One Centre in Turkey
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    Chapter 31 Burns Epidemiology in Syria: Al-Kindi Hospital, Aleppo
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    Chapter 32 Comparison of Epidemiological Data and Life Prognosis in Patients Transferred From the Maghreb to France, and in All Patients Admitted to One Burns Centre in Paris
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    Chapter 33 Analysis of Burned Children in Libya; Tripoli Burns and Plastic Surgery Centre
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    Chapter 34 Epidemiology of Outpatient Burns as a Public Health Problem
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    Chapter 35 Computer Support in Fluid Resuscitation for Burn Patients
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    Chapter 36 The Life-Saving Potential of Anaesthesiology in Burned patients; Classical Approaches and New Perspectives
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    Chapter 37 Efficacy of Haptoglobin in Haemolysis and Prevention of Acute Renal Disorders Following Severe Burn Injury
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    Chapter 38 Effective Method of Extracorporeal Detoxification in Severe Burns
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    Chapter 39 Value of Immune Status Analysis in the Assessment of Burn Patients
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    Chapter 40 Immunobacteriological Monitoring of Burn Patients: a Proposed Protocol
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    Chapter 41 The Expression of HLA-DR, IL-2R, ICAM-1 and TNF Alpha Molecules as Possible Prognostic Elements of Hypertrophic Scarring in Burns
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    Chapter 42 Prediction in Burns Outcome: a New Prognostic Index
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    Chapter 43 What is Hazardous in Fire Smoke?
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    Chapter 44 Inhalation Trauma Diagnostic Screening Test for Fire Victims
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    Chapter 45 Pulmonary Inhalation Injury
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    Chapter 46 Lung Metabolic Function as a Factor of Homeostasis Support After Thermal Injury
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    Chapter 47 Application of Enterosorbents in the Acute Period of Burn Disease
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    Chapter 48 Infection in the Burn Patient
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    Chapter 49 Histological Assessment of the Level of Burn Wound Infection: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies
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    Chapter 50 Modern Approach to Treatment of Contaminated Burn Wounds by Local Ozone Therapy
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    Chapter 51 Evaluation of Conservative Ambulatory Burn Treatment with Nitrofurazone-Embedded Fine Mesh Gauze in 100 Consecutive Patients
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    Chapter 52 Dilemmas in Burn Surgery
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    Chapter 53 The Evolution of Surgical Procedures in the Acute Phase of Burns
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    Chapter 54 The Aesthetic Repair of Severe Neck Burn Sequelae
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    Chapter 55 A Local Skin Grafting Method in the Treatment of Postburn Scar Contractures in the Neck
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    Chapter 56 Management of the Burned Patient: a Surgical and Anaesthesiological Protocol
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    Chapter 57 Sedation and Analgesia: an i.m.—i.v. Technique for Dressing Procedures
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    Chapter 58 Aesthetic Reconstruction of Deep Facial Burns
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    Chapter 59 Skin Substitutes: Biomaterials and their Use in Covering Substance Loss and Burns
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    Chapter 60 Clinical Experience with Skin Xenografts in Burned Patients
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    Chapter 61 Present and Future Indications for the Use of Cultured Epidermal Autografts in the Treatment of Burns
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    Chapter 62 Problems Created by the Use of Cultured Epithelia
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    Chapter 63 Development and Clinical Application of Keratinocytes Cultured on a Hyaluronic Ester Membrane in Burn Patients
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    Chapter 64 Controlled Trial on Donor Sites: Biocol Versus Jelonet
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    Chapter 65 The Regeneration of Skin Sensitivity After Extensive Burns
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    Chapter 66 Treatment of Hypertrophic Scars with Topical Silicone Gel
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    Chapter 67 Burn Scars: Prevention and Treatment with Elastic Compression
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    Chapter 68 The Extended Deep Inferior Epigastric Flap: A Spearhead to Charge into the Most Resistant Sites
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    Chapter 69 The Treatment of Burn Scars in the Cervico-Facial Region with Bipedicled Expanded Flap of the Scalp
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    Chapter 70 Tissue Expansion in the Rehabilitation of Head and Neck Burn Sequelae
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    Chapter 71 Electrical Burn Injury
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    Chapter 72 Epidemiology, Clinical Treatment and Therapy in Electrically Burned Children
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    Chapter 73 Shoulder Disarticulation After High-Tension Electrical Burns: Technical Problems
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    Chapter 74 Hand Burns in Children
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    Chapter 75 Deep Hand Burns: The Importance of Rehabilitation in the Acute Phase for Surgical Preparation
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    Chapter 76 Tactics for Operative Treatment of Postburn Hand Contractures in Children
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    Chapter 77 Rehabilitation in Severe Burned Hand Sequelae
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    Chapter 78 The Burned Hand: Its Consequences for the Patients’ Psychological Status and Social Readjustment
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    Chapter 79 Limb Rehabilitation in the Burned Patient
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    Chapter 80 Early and Late Results of Physiotherapy in Burns
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    Chapter 81 The Burn Unit — Past, Present and Future
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    Chapter 82 The New Burns Centre in Messina, Italy (a sketch)
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    Chapter 83 The New Burns Centre in Rome; a Brief Description
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    Chapter 84 After Twenty Years’ Experience, Should the Structures and Standards of Burns Centres be Reconsidered?
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    Chapter 85 A Proposed Computer File for Use in Burns Centres
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    Chapter 86 Forest Fire Behaviour and Fireline Safety
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    Chapter 87 Current Trends in Forest Firefighting Techniques
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    Chapter 88 The Protection of Forests in Sicily from Fire Risk
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    Chapter 89 New Technologies for Predicting, Preventing and Extinguishing Forest Fires
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    Chapter 90 Forest Fires in Ticino Canton, Switzerland
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    Chapter 91 Triage in Major Technological Health Disasters: Chemical Poisoning, Radiation Injury, Fire Injury
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    Chapter 92 The Problem of Fire Disasters in Russia, Including Fires at Chernobyl-Type Nuclear Plants
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    Chapter 93 Evolution of Burn Accidents in a Hydrocarbons Complex: Sonatrach 1985–1990
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    Chapter 94 Industrial Burns Prevention and Fire Disaster Management: the ENI Experience
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    Chapter 95 Safety Features of Protective Equipment for Work in the Presence of High Temperatures and Methods for Testing their Efficiency
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    Chapter 96 Chemical Spillage — a Preventable Disaster?
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    Chapter 97 European Union and National Legislation Regarding Industrial Activities Involving the Risk of Serious Accidents
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    Chapter 98 The Role of the World Health Organization in Disasters
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    Chapter 99 Protection of Health and Humanitarian Services in Time of Armed Conflict: The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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    Chapter 100 Considerations on a Collaborative International Health Project for Guerilla Warfare Burn Victims in Angola
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    Chapter 101 Treating the Paediatric Burn Patients of the Bashkiria Disaster
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Title
The Management of Burns and Fire Disasters: Perspectives 2000
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-0361-6
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978-9-40-106647-1, 978-9-40-090361-6
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Masellis, M., Gunn, S. W. A.

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Student > Bachelor 3 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 22%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 11%
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Social Sciences 2 22%
Environmental Science 1 11%
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