Occupational medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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The authors cover the care of burn injuries from start to finish, beginning with a discussion of immediate intervention and concluding with a look at psychosocial aspects of burns. Topics in the middle include early management, evaluation of the patient and classification of the burn's severity, burn resuscitation, the pathophysiology of smoke inhalation, dressing of burn wounds, escharotomies and fasciotomies, surgical management, and rehabilitation.
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Smoke inhalation may account for up to 75% of fire-related deaths and presents with a wide variety of complaints and findings. The authors examine the components of smoke to illustrate the patterns of smoke injury, provide useful guidelines on evaluation and management, survey current laboratory and diagnostic studies, and present their recommendations for treatment.
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The authors examine the acute and chronic effects of exposure to smoke among firefighters and look at mortality studies for the risk of death due to nonmalignant respiratory disease and lung cancer.