One world, one standard of burn care
Worldwide, 5 billion people lack access to safe surgical care. To address this problem, an estimated 2 million additional health care workers need to be trained. Burn injuries are among the most common and devastating of all injuries, with most of them occurring in resource-limited settings. However, access to essential information on the treatment of burns and contractures has not always been readily available, until now. Basics of Burn Care 1: Acute Burn Injuries, and Basics of Burn Care 2: Scars and Contractures use visual examples, such as interactive images and videos, that include perspectives of both health care workers and patients from various settings around the world.
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The eBooks have been developed in collaboration with contributors from different settings and with different backgrounds. They provided the opportunity to show practical examples from Tanzania, the Netherlands, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh. We are very thankful to everyone who supported this project including the Dutch Burns Foundation, Haydom Lutheran Hospital, and MLX. In particular, we would like to express our gratitude to all the patients who allowed us to show the treatment of their burn injuries as an example for health care workers to learn from, in order to improve the treatment for other patients in the future.
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The content has been carefully created by the authors. The eBooks should not be interpreted as a replacement for (local) guidelines under any circumstances, but is solely for medical education. In the rapidly changing landscape of medicine changes in treatment are required, therefore the content is in accordance with the standards and information at the time of publishing. However, due to these changes the authors do not warrant that the information contained herein is accurate or complete and disclaim all responsibility for any errors or omissions for results attained by using the content of these eBooks. All illustrations, photos and videos are provided with references if necessary. Content without attribution is self-created by the authors or used under the “Public Domain” or “CC0” license, when attribution was not required.
