The Management of Burns and Fire Disasters: Perspectives 2000

by M. Masellis (Editor), S. William A. Gunn (Editor)

Overview

This volume is published with a triple aim: to take a look back over the advances during the ten years of the Mediterranean Burns Club and mark its anniversary; to follow up and strengthen the successful twin­ ning of burns as a clinical, individual illness problem and fires as a societal, disaster management problem; and to look ahead at the per­ spectives of burn care and fire prevention in the fast-approaching new century. The occasion also marks the tenth annual presentation of the prestigious G. Whitaker International Burns Prize, to which the Mediterranean Burns Club acts as the scientific fulcrum. The award is now established as the most distinguished recognition in burns science worldwide, and it is gratifying that the contributions of many of the renowned recipients will be found in this book. This is a sequel to The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters, which contained the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters. The book and the conference have fully justified the authors' initial concept that burn specialists, con­ stantly combatting burn disease and promoting rehabilitation of the victims, especially in mass casualty situations, had for too long remained separate from that other essential sector, the fire-fighting authorities and fire prevention systems, whose aim is also the protection of the individual and the promotion of safety. This long overdue synergism has now become reality, and the present volume strengthens this desirable trend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792388876
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	01/31/1996
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	605
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Masellis, M., MD; Gunn, S. W.A., MD

The contributors were participants in the Second International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters.

Table of Contents

Section I: The burn and fire problem.- Section II: Fire disasters in society.- Section III: Burn prevention.- Section IV: Epidemiology, Geographic pathology.- Section V: Intensive care.- Section VI: Immunology in burns.- Section VII: Complications of burns.- Section VIII: Burn infection care.- Section IX: Burn surgery.- Section X: Biomaterials.- Section XI: Burn scar management.- Section XII: Electrical burns.- Section XIII: Hand burns.- Section XIV: Rehabilitation.- Section XV: Burn centres.- Section XVI: Forest fires.- Section XVII: Industrial fire disasters.- Section XVIII: International cooperation.- Index of Authors.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: David James Dries, MSE, MD (Regions Hospital)
Description: This multidisciplinary text include papers presented at the Second International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters. These presentations are sponsored by the Mediterranean Burns Club and include perspectives beginning with injury analysis and prevention and continuing through fire fighting and specialized burn care.
Purpose: Integrated in this book are data for burn specialists, rehabilitation personnel, fire-fighting authorities and fire prevention personnel.
Audience: The specialist caring for burn-injured patients, public health professionals, and fire officials are an appropriate audience for this work. Contributors include burn authorities in western Europe and the Mediterranean community.
Features: Approximately 100 chapters are included in this 600-page text. Chapters are grouped into injury pattern and prevention, mass casualty situations, acute burn management including intensive care and rehabilitation, and specialized burn problems, including forest rim and industrial disasters. Chapters are written in a concise comfortable style. Black-and-white illustrations of inconsistent quality are variably placed throughout the chapters. Some chapters contain no references. Where references are present, they date to the early 1990s. The table of contents reveals only chapter group, title, and authors. The index lists only authors by name.
Assessment: This book provides an overview of issues confronting fire fighters, prevention specialists, and burn practitioners in the European theater during the 1990s. As a textbook of burn care, this work is critically flawed by inconsistent style, lack of references, poor illustration quality, and the unfocused presentation style that characterizes many international conferences. An injury prevention program may best utilize this work because of its broad perspective. The student will be frustrated because of the lack of fundamental detail and inconsistent organization and presentation.

Doody's Review Service

2 Stars from Doody

This multidisciplinary text include papers presented at the Second International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters. These presentations are sponsored by the Mediterranean Burns Club and include perspectives beginning with injury analysis and prevention and continuing through fire fighting and specialized burn care. Integrated in this book are data for burn specialists, rehabilitation personnel, fire-fighting authorities and fire prevention personnel. The specialist caring for burn-injured patients, public health professionals, and fire officials are an appropriate audience for this work. Contributors include burn authorities in western Europe and the Mediterranean community. Approximately 100 chapters are included in this 600-page text. Chapters are grouped into injury pattern and prevention, mass casualty situations, acute burn management including intensive care and rehabilitation, and specialized burn problems, including forest rim and industrial disasters. Chapters are written in a concise comfortable style. Black-and-white illustrations of inconsistent quality are variably placed throughout the chapters. Some chapters contain no references. Where references are present, they date to the early 1990s. The table of contents reveals only chapter group, title, and authors. The index lists only authors by name. This book provides an overview of issues confronting fire fighters, prevention specialists, and burn practitioners in the European theater during the 1990s. As a textbook of burn care, this work is critically flawed by inconsistent style, lack of references, poor illustration quality, and the unfocused presentation style that characterizes many internationalconferences. An injury prevention program may best utilize this work because of its broad perspective. The student will be frustrated because of the lack of fundamental detail and inconsistent organization and presentation.

David J. Dries

Proceedings of the 1995 conference sponsored by the Mediterranean Burns Club (and apparently held in Italy). The 101 papers in this sequel to The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters cover a wide range of topics. Contributions in the first several sections address such issues as forest fires and related accidents in the social context, ethical problems in mass disasters, terminology of burns and fire disasters, and organization of emergency rescue. Subsequent sections address prevention, epidemiology, intensive care, immunology, surgery, biomaterials, scar management, electrical burns, burn centers, rehabilitation, industrial fire disasters, and international cooperation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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