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Burns.

Robert L Sheridan1

  • 1Burn Surgery Service, Shriners Burns Hospital, Sumner Redstone Burn Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Critical Care Medicine
|January 17, 2003
PubMed
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Advances in specialized burn care surgery have significantly improved patient survival and quality of life over 20 years. This progress has led to higher public expectations and regionalization of care into specialized centers.

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Area of Science:

  • Surgical Specialties
  • Trauma Surgery
  • Burn Medicine

Background:

  • Burn care has advanced significantly over the past two decades.
  • Patient survival and quality of outcomes have markedly improved.
  • Public expectations for burn survivors are at unprecedented levels.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the evolution of burn care as a surgical specialty.
  • To highlight the advances contributing to improved patient outcomes.
  • To outline the phases of complex burn hospitalizations.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of advancements in burn care over 20 years.
  • Analysis of the impact of these advances on survival and outcome quality.
  • Description of the phased approach to burn patient management.

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Main Results:

  • Burn care has evolved into a specialized surgical field.
  • Significant improvements in survival rates and long-term outcomes have been achieved.
  • Care has become increasingly regionalized in specialized centers due to its resource-intensive nature.

Conclusions:

  • Modern burn care involves complex hospitalizations managed in distinct phases.
  • The four phases include: initial evaluation/resuscitation, wound excision/biological closure, definitive wound closure, and rehabilitation/reconstruction.
  • Continued advancements foster higher expectations and specialized care delivery.