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Prevention of burn injuries

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Prevention means anticipation. In modern medicine, prevention has become the goal of all healing strategies. It has been shown that prevention is key for maintaining health and having the highest quality of life, despite increasing age. Furthermore, prevention is the more efficient way to treat an illness, since it reduces, not only hospital stay, but also drug use and cost of complications. However, prevention can also be expensive and it has until recently been considered a luxury and sometimes impractical, especially in the developing world.

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  1. Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Anna Arno M.D. & Judy Knighton

  2. Burn Unit and Plastic Surgery Department, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Arno M.D.

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  1. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Plastische, Aesthetische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie, Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

    Lars-Peter Kamolz M.D., M.Sc.

  3. Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery and Intensive Care, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

    Folke Sjöberg M.D., Ph.D.

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

    Folke Sjöberg M.D., Ph.D.

  5. Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA

    Steven E. Wolf M.D.

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Arno, A., Knighton, J. (2012). Prevention of burn injuries. In: Jeschke, M.G., Kamolz, LP., Sjöberg, F., Wolf, S.E. (eds) Handbook of Burns. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0348-7_3

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