Burns, Infections and Wound Management

Chapter 20 Overview of Burns

Chapter 21 Care and (First) Aid of Children with Burns

Chapter 22 Learning from the Management of Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms at a Regional Burns Centre

Chapter 23 A Hemostatic Technique Using Silicone Gel Dressing for Burn Surgery

Chapter 24 Skin Graft Fixation in Severe Burns: Use of Topical Negative Pressure

Chapter 25 Tissue Expanders in Post-Burn Alopecia: With or Without Galeotomies

Chapter 26 Autologous Skin Cell Transplantation and Medical Needling for Repigmentation of Depigmented Burn Scars on UV-Protected and UV-Exposed Skin

Chapter 27 A Novel Chitosan-Based Gel for Burn Wounds

Chapter 28 Treatment of Partial-Thickness Scalds by Skin Xenografts

Chapter 29 The Meek Technique in the Treatment of Burns

Chapter 30 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Burn Patient

Chapter 31 Chemical Burns to the Eye

Chapter 32 Severe Burns: Pathogenesis and Prevention of Infection

Chapter 33 Primary Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Breast: Combined Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen and Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy to Conserve the Breast

Chapter 34 Novel Antimicrobial Peptides: Targeting Wound Infections Caused by ‘Superbugs’ Resistant to All Current Antibiotics

Chapter 35 Malnutrition Predicts Infectious and Wound Complications Following Posterior Lumbar Spinal Fusion

Chapter 36 Deep Wound and Organ-Space Infection After Surgery for Degenerative Spine Disease

Chapter 37 Wound Infection Following Stoma Reversal: A Prospective Comparative Study

Chapter 38 Potential Mechanisms and Application of Honeybee Products in Wound Management: Wound Healing by Apitherapy

Chapter 39 Reactive Oxygen Species Treatment in the Management of Wounds

Chapter 111 Comparison of Antemortem Clinical Diagnosis and Postmortem Findings in Burn-Related Deaths

Chapter 112 Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy for Large Burn Wounds

Chapter 113 The Effect of Natural Extracts on Laser Burn Wound Healing

Chapter 114 Novel Use of a Biologically Active-Prefabricated-Random-Three-Dimensional-Polymer Scaffold of Hyaluronic Acid (HYAFF) to Facilitate Complicated Wound Closure

Chapter 115 Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for the Treatment of Complex Spinal Wounds