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Burn Intensive Care

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Aug 2014Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Surgical Clinics of North America, volume 94, pages 765-779 (issn: 0039-6109,

Authors: Shawn P. Fagan; Jeremy Goverman; Mary-Liz Bilodeau;

doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2014.05.004

pmid: 25085087

Burn Intensive Care

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Abstract

As a result of continuous development in the treatment of burns, the LD50 (the burn size lethal to 50% of the population) for thermal injuries has risen from 42% total body surface area (TBSA) during the 1940s and 1950s to more than 90% TBSA for young thermally injured patients. This vast improvement in survival is due to simultaneous developments in critical care, advancements in resuscitation, control of infection through early excision, and pharmacologic support of the hypermetabolic response to burns. This article reviews these recent advances and how they influence modern intensive care of burns.

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Keywords

Critical Care, Metabolic Diseases, Hyperglycemia, Wound Infection, Fluid Therapy, Humans, Acute Kidney Injury, Burns, Respiration, Artificial

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