|
Burns and thermal injuries
Sunita Singh1, Sarita Agrawal2, Manju Agrawal3, Nitin Kumar Borkar4, Alok C Agrawal5
1 Department of Surgery, AIIMS,Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
2 Department of Obstratics and Gynacology, AIIMS,Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
3 Department of Pharmacology, N. S. C. B. Medical College, Jabalpur,Madhya Pradesh, India
4 Department of Trauma and Emergency, AIIMS,Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
5 Department of Orthopaedics, AIIMS,Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Correspondence Address:
Sunita Singh
Department of Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Tatibandh, G. E. Road, Raipur - 492 099, Chhattisgarh
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
|
|
The burn patients need a very special care as besides skin burn; they can have associated mechanical injuries, inhalational injury and altered physiology with the risk of hypothermia. Once the patient survives from the acute phase, the appropriate wound management is the further challenge. The psychological trauma starts from time of injury to long after survival. Thus focused approach of burn patients allows critical care support, early surgical excision and closure of the burn wounds, patient and family psychosocial support, patient and family education, continuous long-term rehabilitation, re-entry into the society and reconstructive surgical needs. |
