TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Thermal Burns A1 - DeKoning, E. Paul A2 - Tintinalli, Judith E. A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Yealy, Donald M. A2 - Meckler, Garth D. A2 - Stapczynski, J. Stephan A2 - Cline, David M. A2 - Thomas, Stephen H. Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 9e AB - More than 450,000 individuals in the United States receive medical treatment each year for burn injuries, with 486,000 receiving treatment in 2016 alone.1 Although 40,000 patients require hospitalization and >60% of those are treated at one of 128 specialized burn centers,1 the vast majority of burn patients are treated in the acute setting by emergency physicians and discharged with outpatient follow-up.2,3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/08 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166811290 ER -