Working in an emergency department or critical care unit most of the anesthetists must have come across incidental cases of burn patients. Many clinicians face difficulties in managing patients with multiple burn injuries and pain. This article provides a glimpse of the strategy of anesthesia management in burn patients. Many times anesthetists are first-in-line for stabilizing a critically ill or injured patients.
Various protocols dictate that anesthetists should step in during the primary assessment of the injured patients even in the emergency department. Burn patients are one such type of patients which warrant a care by anesthetist for a much longer duration. Burn patients warrant anesthetists throughout the perioperative period including preoperative airway management, intraoperative anesthetic care postoperative intensive care and postoperative pain management. This article will…
