Clinical Management of Burns: Past, Present and Future
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1330
Special Issue Editor
Interests: burn care; wound care; plastic surgery; burn injuries; medical history
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The progress of burn care has changed and is changing the morbidity and mortality of burn victims of all ages. A better understanding of burn pathology and the realization that it is a complex syndrome where each phase, aspect, and treatment may have a deep impact on other physiological and pathological phenomena lead to a comprehensive approach towards burn victims and the formation of specialized burn teams and burn centers. Progress in intensive care, medication, surgery and non-invasive therapies creates new tools for burn teams, but their cost in the present cost-sensitive era poses additional challenges to care providers. The challenge of burn care increases in view of the fast spread of resistant microbial strains and the looming danger of conflicts where more devastating arms are used. Specialized burn teams and centers, which are small and few in number, face a new challenge: burn mass casualty incidents (BMCIs) where they may be inundated by large numbers of burn victims, overcoming their modest surge capacity.
In this Special Issue, we welcome authors to submit papers on topics that give us insights of our past, i.e., the history of burn care. We would like also to open the doors to modalities other than occidental/formal treatment that may be as effective: an introduction to the traditional Chinese and Indian (Ayurveda) methods of burn care (including wound treatment, infection, inflammation and pain control) and their potential benefits and risks. We welcome papers that describe paradigm-changing approaches as well as new understandings of old phenomena. We also encourage papers that approach the handling of BMCIs and address the frequent expectation that burn specialists should also act as soft tissue trauma specialists. Last but not least, we welcome any practical and cost-reducing but effective means (“better and cheaper”) of burn care.
Dr. Lior Rosenberg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- history of burn care
- burn care infection
- inflammation
- burn wound care and closure
- debridement
- traditional Chinese burn care
- traditional Indian (Ayurveda) burn care
- burn mass casualty incidents (BMCIs)
- surge capacity
- burn pain control
- pruritus
- burn scar treatment
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