An Historical Perspective on Advances in Burn Care Over the Past 100 Years

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 527-545

  Pruitt Jr , Basil A ^a,b   Wolf, Steven E ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn wound care; Electric injury; Fluid rescuscitation; Hypermetabolism; Inhalation injury; Nutrition; Skin substitutes; Stress ulcers

Indexed keywords

[2 METHOXY 3 (N OCTADECYLCARBAMOYLOXY)PROPYL] (2 THIAZOLIOETHYL) PHOSPHATE; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTACID AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CIMETIDINE; CLOTRIMAZOLE; CRYSTAL VIOLET; DICHLOROACETIC ACID; HEPARIN; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; MAFENIDE ACETATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OXANDROLONE; PENICILLIN G; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SILVER NITRATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C; SULFONAMIDE; TANNIN;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; BURN; BURN EXCISION; BURN INFECTION; BURN SHOCK; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DUODENUM ULCER; ELECTRIC BURN; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; INFUSION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG BURN; LUNG EDEMA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STRESS ULCER; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE NECROSIS; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

BURNS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 70349329522     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2009.05.007     Document Type: Review

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