State of the Art: An Update on Adult Burn Resuscitation

Treatment of patients with severe burn injuries is complex, relying on attentive fluid resuscitation, successful management concomitant injuries, prompt wound assessment and closure, early rehabilitation, compassionate psychosocial care. The goal resuscitation to maintain organ perfusion at the lowest possible physiologic cost. This requires careful, hourly titration infusion rate meet individual patient needs, no more; risks over-resuscitation, such as compartment syndromes, are numerous life-threatening. Recognizing runaway resuscitations understanding how employ adjuncts crystalloid paramount preventing morbidity mortality. article provides an update techniques in patients, include choosing initial rate, using alternate endpoints responding difficult resuscitation.