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Outpatient Burn Management

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The great majority of burns are small and may be treated with outpatient management. Successful outpatient management is dependent on patient selection, selection of an appropriate dressing which minimizes pain and frequency of dressing changes, and establishment of an outpatient clinic which can offer daily care. Most of the complications that arise during outpatient care can also be managed on an ambulatory basis. Establishing an effective outpatient clinic and care path will decrease cost of burn care and increase patient and family satisfaction.

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  1. MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Charles J. Yowler & Tammy L. Coffee

  2. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Charles J. Yowler

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  1. Ross Tilley Burn Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

  2. Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz

  3. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Folke Sjöberg

  4. Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Steven E. Wolf

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Yowler, C.J., Coffee, T.L. (2020). Outpatient Burn Management. In: Jeschke, M., Kamolz, LP., Sjöberg, F., Wolf, S. (eds) Handbook of Burns Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18940-2_33

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