Managing Burns

Abstract

To illustrate problems of treating burns, this panel discusses five cases—a 42 year old man with burns over 16 percent of his body, a 53 year old man whose burns covered 40 to 45 percent of his body, a child with four month old burns and open granulating wounds, a 14 year old boy who had an arm amputated because of a severe electric burn, and a patient with a burn-induced elbow contracture.