This book presents a comprehensive overview of recent clinical techniques and findings regarding wounds in burns, infections of wounds, and wound management in general. With the help of numerous high-quality illustrations, the first part of the book describes various approaches to treating patients with burn wounds. In turn, the second part focuses on infections of wounds. Here, the chapter authors summarize the most recent treatment options for wound infection in both children and adults. The third and last part addresses wound management in general, rounding out the content. Given the breadth of its coverage, the book offers a valuable resource for beginners and experienced plastic surgeons alike.

<p>Part 1: Burns

Overview of Burns
Care and (First) Aid of Children with Burns
Learning from the Management of Carbapenemase Producing Organisms at a Regional Burns Centre
A Hemostatic Technique Using Silicone Gel Dressing for Burn Surgery
Skin Graft Fixation in Severe Burns: Use of Topical Negative Pressure
Tissue Expanders in Post-Burn Alopecia: With or Without Galeotomies
Autologous Skin Cell Transplantation and Medical Needling for Repigmentation of Depigmented Burn Scars on UV-Protected and UV-Exposed Skin
A novel Chitosan Based Gel for Burn Wounds
Treatment of Partial-thickness Scalds by Skin Xenografts
The MEEK Technique in the Treatment of Burns
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Burn Patient
Chemical Burns to the Eye
Severe Burns: Pathogenesis and Prevention of Infection
Comparison of antemortem clinical diagnosis and postmortem findings in burn-related deaths
The effect of natural extracts on laser burn wound healing
Part 2: Infections
Malnutrition Predicts Infectious and Wound Complications Following Posterior Lumbar Spinal Fusion
Deep-Wound and Organ-Space Infection after Surgery for Degenerative Spine Disease
Wound Infection following Stoma Reversal: A Prospective Comparative Study
Primary Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Breast: Combined use of Hyperbaric Oxygen and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy to Conserve the Breast
Novel Antimicrobial Peptides: Targeting Wound Infections Caused by 'Superbugs' Resistant to all Current Antibiotics
Novel use of a biologically-active-prefaabricated- random-3-dimensional-polymer scaffold of hyaluronic acid  (hyaff) to facilitate complicated wound closure
Part 3: Wound Management
Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy for Large Burn Wounds
Negative pressure wound therapy for the treatment of  complex spinal wounds
Potential mechanisms and application of honeybee products in wound management: wound healing by apitherapy
Reactive oxygen species treatment in themanagement of wounds<br></p>