This issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery, guest edited by Drs. Charles Scott Hultman and Michael W. Neumeister, is devoted to Burn Care: Rescue, Resuscitation, Resurfacing. Articles in this comprehensive issue include: Lessons Learned from Major Disasters: From Cocoanut Grove to 9/11; Disaster Preparedness and Response in the 21st Century; Prevention, Advocacy, Legislation; 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teams:Integrating the Workforce; Financial Impact of Burns; Innovations in Burn Wound Assessment and Care; Hemodynamic Monitoring and Resuscitation; Management of Pulmonary Failure: From the VDR to ECMO; Infection Control: Iimmunosuppression and Management of HAIs; Neuro ICU and Perioperative Sedation/Analgesia; Nutrition, Metabolism, Endocrine; Patient Safety in Burn Patients: From the ICU to Rehab; Dermatologic Emergencies and the Role of the Burn Center; Pediatric Burn Care; Timing and Type of Excision:EBM Guidelines; Skin Substitutes and Bioscaffolds: Temporary and Permanent Coverage; Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells: Regeneration of the Skin and its Contents; Chemical, Electrical, and Radiation Injuries; Perineal Burns and Child Abuse; Negative Pressure Wound Therapy; Chronic Burn Wounds: HBO, Growth Factors, Marjolin’s; and Acute Management of Hand Burns.

Contents

۱. Lessons Learned from Burn Disasters in the Post-9 -11 Era
۲. Disaster Preparedness and Response for the Burn Mass Casualty Incident in the Twenty-first Century
۳. Burn Injuries – Prevention, Advocacy, and legislation
۴. Negligent and Inflicted Burns in Children
۵. Burn Care in Low- and Middie-Income Countries
۶. Global Burn Care
۷. Acute Fluid Management of Large Bums – pathophysiology, Monitoringrand Ressuscitation
۸. Inhalation Injury -Pathophysiology, Diagnosisrand Treatment
۹. Management of Pulmonary Failure after Burn Injury
۱۰. Rational Selection and Use of Antimicrobials in Patients with Burn Injuries
۱۱. Sedation and Pain Management in Bum Patients
۱۲. Metabolic and Endocrine Considerations After Bum Injury
۱۳. Clinician’s Guide to Nutritional Therapy Following Major Burn Injury
۱۴. Acalculous Cholecystitis in Burn Patients-Is their a role for percutaneous Cholecystostomy
۱۵. Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Thermal Injury
۱۶. Burn Center Care of Patients with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrotysis
۱۷. Life-threatening Skin Disorders Treated in the Burn Center
۱۸. Pediatric Bum Care – Unique Consideration in Management
۱۹. Patient Safety in Burn Care
۲۰. Surgical Excision of Bum Wounds
۲۱. Skin Substitutes and Bioscaffolds
۲۲. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering
۲۳. Even Better Than the Real Thing- Xenografting in Pediatric Patients with Scald Injury
۲۴. Chemicalr Electrical, and Radiation Injuries
۲۵. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Burns
۲۶. Management of the Chronic Bum Wound