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Eur J Pediatr Surg 2013; 23(05): 341-348
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1356650
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Management of Burn Wounds

Clemens Schiestl
1   Pediatric Burn Center, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
,
Martin Meuli
1   Pediatric Burn Center, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
,
Marija Trop
2   Department of Pediatrics, Children's Burns Unit, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
,
Kathrin Neuhaus
1   Pediatric Burn Center, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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30. Juli 2013

21. August 2013

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11. September 2013 (online)

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Abstract

Small and moderate scalds in toddlers are still the most frequent thermal injuries the pediatric surgeons have to face today. Over the last years, surgical treatment of these patients has changed in many aspects. Due to new dressing materials and new surgical treatment strategies that are particularly suitable for children, today, far better functional and aesthetic long-term results are possible. While small and moderate thermal injuries can be treated in most European pediatric surgical departments, the severely burned child must be transferred to a specialized, ideally pediatric, burn center, where a well-trained multidisciplinary team under the leadership of a (ideally pediatric) burn surgeon cares for these highly demanding patients. In future, tissue engineered full thickness skin analogues will most likely play an important role, in pediatric burn as well as postburn reconstructive surgery.

Keywords

burns - scalds - child - toxic shock syndrome - tissue engineering
 

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