Guidelines for the management of partial-thickness burns in a general hospital or community setting--recommendations of a European working party
| Autor: | Antoine J. M. van Trier, Véronique Voinchet, Marcin Kaźmierski, Ricard Palao, Bjarne Alsbjörn, Maria Angélica Roberto, Stan Monstrey, Bernd Hartmann, Philip M. Gilbert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Consensus Referral Burn Units MEDLINE Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Hospitals General medicine media_common.cataloged_instance Humans Community Health Services General hospital European union Referral and Consultation media_common Wound Healing business.industry General Medicine Burn units medicine.disease Bandages Surgery Europe Hospitalization Emergency Medicine Community setting Medical emergency business Burns Algorithms Partial thickness |
| Zdroj: | Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries. 33(2) |
| ISSN: | 0305-4179 |
| Popis: | Most partial-thickness burns in Europe and the United States are managed by non-burns specialists who do not treat burns on a regular basis. To achieve better patient outcomes, partial-thickness burns should be properly managed in non-specialist centres and referred to burn units when appropriate. Although some guidelines have been published to assist non-specialists, few have attempted to provide a comprehensive step-by-step guidance emphasising wound-healing principles. A working party of European burn specialists devised a new treatment algorithm to provide clear and current guidance on the management of partial-thickness burns in the general hospital and community setting. Four areas were identified for improvement: diagnosis and referral, wound preparation, wound covering and post-wound care. The guidelines take into account the role of wound dressings, infection and general patient well-being, bearing in mind the different working environments that occur across Europe. They are aimed at improving the overall outcome for community-treated patients within the expanding European Union and reducing the number of preventable late referrals to specialists. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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