A review series on the management of burns injury.

In the southern hemisphere winter of 2019, the editors of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (A&IC) discussed and agreed upon the idea of reintroducing theme issues containing a series of reviews and perhaps other articles on particular subjects that may be of interest to our readership. This is not a novel concept for A&IC or other journals. Indeed, the very first volume of A&IC featured a symposium issue on paediatric anaesthesia and intensive care (Vol. 1, No. 6, Nov. 1973) with Kester Brown appointed by Ben Barry as ‘Special Editor’...