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Early Surgery Improves Outcomes Following Critical Burns
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Jun 29, 2007
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Podcast episode
Description
Early surgical excision is likely to be the most significant individual variable to imporve the outcome of a patient (adult or child) with a critical burn. Nevertheless, many nonburn physicians still want to apply to 1970 treatment paradigms to this population of injured patients. This episode will hopefull replace these falsehoods with fact supported in the literature.
Released:
Jun 29, 2007
Format:
Podcast episode
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