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Are there any differences in the provided burn care between men and women? A retrospective study

Disparity between medical treatment for men and women has been recorded worldwide. However, it is difficult to find out if the disparities in both the use of resources and outcome depend entirely on sex-relate...

Authors: Laura Pompermaier, Moustafa Elmasry, Islam Abdelrahman, Mats Fredrikson, Folke Sjöberg and Ingrid Steinvall

Ultrasonographic findings of re-epithelialized skin after partial-thickness burns

This study aimed to investigate the difference between ultrasonographic findings of normal skin and those of re-epithelialized skin after partial-thickness burns and to evaluate the relationship between these ...

Authors: Jong Dae Kim, Suk Joon Oh, Sun Gyu Kim, Song Vogue Ahn, Yu Jin Jang, Ban Seok Yang, Ji Yun Jeong and Kwang Jo Kim

Distraction ligamentotaxis for complex proximal interphalangeal joint fracture dislocations: a clinical study and the modified pins rubber band traction system revisited

The purpose of this study is to present our experience with the modified pins and rubber band traction system, discuss problems encountered, and make recommendations to optimize outcomes.

Authors: Cheng Hean Lo, Simone H. Nothdurft, Hye-Sung Park, Eldho Paul and James Leong

Electrically stimulated cell migration and its contribution to wound healing

Naturally occurring electric fields are known to be morphogenetic cues and associated with growth and healing throughout mammalian and amphibian animals and the plant kingdom. Electricity in animals was discov...

Authors: Guangping Tai, Michael Tai and Min Zhao

Review of additive manufactured tissue engineering scaffolds: relationship between geometry and performance

Material extrusion additive manufacturing has rapidly grown in use for tissue engineering research since its adoption in the year 2000. It has enabled researchers to produce scaffolds with intricate porous geo...

Authors: Andrew Gleadall, Dafydd Visscher, Jing Yang, Daniel Thomas and Joel Segal

The venous ulcer continues to be a clinical challenge: an update

Venous ulcers are a common chronic problem in many countries especially in Northern Europe and USA. The overall prevalence of this condition is 1% rising to 3% in the over 65 years of age. Over the last 25 yea...

Authors: Ting Xie, Junna Ye, Kittipan Rerkasem and Rajgopal Mani

A retrospective cohort study to compare post-injury admissions for infectious diseases in burn patients, non-burn trauma patients and uninjured people

Injury triggers a range of systemic effects including inflammation and immune responses. This study aimed to compare infectious disease admissions after burn and other types of injury using linked hospital adm...

Authors: Janine M. Duke, Sean M. Randall, James H. Boyd, Mark W. Fear, Suzanne Rea and Fiona M. Wood

3D printing of patient-specific neck splints for the treatment of post-burn neck contractures

Authors: Dafydd O. Visscher, Sjoerd te Slaa, Mariëlle E. Jaspers, Marloes van de Hulsbeek, Jorien Borst, Jan Wolff, Tymour Forouzanfar and Paul P. van Zuijlen

Cell therapy for severe burn wound healing

Cell therapy has emerged as an important component of life-saving procedures in treating burns. Over past decades, advances in stem cells and regenerative medicine have offered exciting opportunities of develo...

Authors: Zhe Li and Peter Maitz

Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of severe burn patients: results of a retrospective multicenter study in China, 2011–2015

Severe burns injury is a serious pathology, leading to teratogenicity and significant mortality, and it also has a long-term social impact. The aim of this article is to describe the hospitalized population wi...

Authors: Hao Tian, Liangxi Wang, Weiguo Xie, Chuanan Shen, Guanghua Guo, Jiaqi Liu, Chunmao Han, Licheng Ren, Yi Liang, Yong Tang, Yuan Wang, Meifang Yin, Jiaping Zhang and Yuesheng Huang

Synthesis of graphene oxide-quaternary ammonium nanocomposite with synergistic antibacterial activity to promote infected wound healing

Bacterial infection is one of the most common complications in burn, trauma, and chronic refractory wounds and is an impediment to healing. The frequent occurrence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria due to ir...

Authors: Tengfei Liu, Yuqing Liu, Menglong Liu, Ying Wang, Weifeng He, Gaoqiang Shi, Xiaohong Hu, Rixing Zhan, Gaoxing Luo, Malcolm Xing and Jun Wu

Body image in paediatric burns: a review

Burn injuries in children can result in life-long disfigurement. As medical and surgical techniques of burn management improve survival prospects more than ever before, body image adjustment is increasingly a ...

Authors: Ian C. C. King

Vitamin D status and its influence on outcomes following major burn injury and critical illness

Vitamin D deficiency is common among the general population. It is also observed in up to 76% of critically ill patients. Despite the high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in critical illness, vitamin D is ofte...

Authors: Khaled Al-Tarrah, Martin Hewison, Naiem Moiemen and Janet M. Lord

Mental health history—a contributing factor for poorer outcomes in burn survivors

A pre-morbid mental health history is common in patients with severe burn injuries. This creates challenges in providing rehabilitation. The aim of this study is to cross examine the possible impact of psychol...

Authors: Frank Li and Danielle Coombs

Checking procalcitonin suitability for prognosis and antimicrobial therapy monitoring in burn patients

Due to greater infection susceptibility, sepsis is the main cause of death in burn patients. Quick diagnosis and patient stratification, early and appropriated antimicrobial therapy, and focus control are cruc...

Authors: Luís Cabral, Vera Afreixo, Rita Meireles, Miguel Vaz, Catarina Chaves, Marisa Caetano, Luís Almeida and José Artur Paiva

Assessment and prediction of road accident injuries trend using time-series models in Kurdistan

Road traffic accidents are commonly encountered incidents that can cause high-intensity injuries to the victims and have direct impacts on the members of the society. Iran has one of the highest incident rates...

Authors: Maryam Parvareh, Asrin Karimi, Satar Rezaei, Abraha Woldemichael, Sairan Nili, Bijan Nouri and Nader Esmail Nasab

A rare case of severe third degree friction burns and large Morel-Lavallee lesion of the abdominal wall

Morel-Lavallee lesions (MLLs) are rare internal degloving injuries typically caused by blunt traumatic injuries and most commonly occur around the hips and in association with pelvic or acetabular fractures. M...

Authors: Darnell J. Brown, Kuo Jung G. Lu, Kristina Chang, Jennifer Levin, John T. Schulz III and Jeremy Goverman

The validation study on a three-dimensional burn estimation smart-phone application: accurate, free and fast?

Accurate total body surface area burned (TBSAB) estimation is a crucial aspect of early burn management. It helps guide resuscitation and is essential in the calculation of fluid requirements. Conventional met...

Authors: A. K. W. Cheah, T. Kangkorn, E. H. Tan, M. L. Loo and S. J. Chong

Post-traumatic stress disorder and resilience among adult burn patients in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the major psychological disorders developed after burn injuries, though this subject of burn injuries and their destructive chronic psychological impact are not ...

Authors: Akhtar Bibi, Sundas Kalim and Muhammad Adnan Khalid

Free-style puzzle flap as a cross-leg pedicled flap: the concept of re-using a flap in acute burns, a case report

In well-selected cases, flaps can play a pivotal role in optimizing outcomes in the acute phase of burns. A previous redundant flap could be reused or recycled as a donor site from which a new flap could be ra...

Authors: Kevin Serror, Marc Chaouat, Golda Romano, Magali Schmidt, Alice Blet, Maurice Mimoun and David Boccara

Tissue engineering of skin and regenerative medicine for wound care

Engineering of biologic skin substitutes has progressed over time from individual applications of skin cells, or biopolymer scaffolds, to combinations of cells and scaffolds for treatment, healing, and closure...

Authors: Steven T. Boyce and Andrea L. Lalley

Bioprinting of skin constructs for wound healing

Extensive burns and full-thickness skin wounds are difficult to repair. Autologous split-thickness skin graft (ASSG) is still used as the gold standard in the clinic. However, the shortage of donor skin tissue...

Authors: Peng He, Junning Zhao, Jiumeng Zhang, Bo Li, Zhiyuan Gou, Maling Gou and Xiaolu Li

An objective measure for the assessment and management of fluid shifts in acute major burns

Major burns are life threatening. Fluid resuscitation is required for survival to maintain intravascular volumes and prevent hypovolemic shock. Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) has been recognised as a potentia...

Authors: Pippa Kenworthy, Michael Phillips, Tiffany L. Grisbrook, William Gibson, Fiona M. Wood and Dale W. Edgar

Validation of the trauma mortality prediction scores from a Malaysian population

Well-known trauma mortality prediction scores such as New Injury Severity Score (NISS), Revised Trauma Score (RTS), and Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) have been externally validated from high-income ...

Authors: Jih Huei Tan, Henry Chor Lip Tan, Nur Azlin Md Noh, Yuzaidi Mohamad and Rizal Imran Alwi

The significance of changes in platelet concentration during the early phase after severe burn injury in a Chinese mass casualty

Changes in platelet concentration are common in severe burn patients. Platelets play a key role in the course of disease. This study aims to explore the significance of platelet concentration during the course...

Authors: Beiming Shou, Junqiang Li, Chenqi Tang, Qian Tan, Dongfeng Zheng, Binwei Sun, Lanjun Nie, Hongwei Zhang, Yanan Jiang, Chunming Wang and Yanwen Wu

A rare case of failed healing in previously burned skin after a secondary burns

Patients presenting with large surface area burns are common in our practice; however, patients with a secondary large burn on pre-existing burn scars and grafts are rare and not reported.

Authors: Stephen J. Goldie, Shaun Parsons, Hana Menezes, Andrew Ives and Heather Cleland

Follow-up in patients with a burn-related emergency department visit: a feasibility study

Data on epidemiology, costs, and outcomes of burn-related injuries presenting at emergency departments (EDs) are scarce. To obtain such information, a questionnaire study with an adequate response rate is impe...

Authors: H. Goei, B. F. M. Wijnen, S. Mans, M. A. C. de Jongh, C. H. van der Vlies, S. Polinder, N. E. E. van Loey and M. E. van Baar

Sodium variability is associated with increased mortality in severe burn injury

Dysnatremias are associated with increased mortality in critically ill patients. Hypernatremia in burn patients is also associated with poor survival. Based on these findings, we hypothesized that high plasma ...

Authors: Soman Sen, Nam Tran, Brian Chan, Tina L. Palmieri, David G. Greenhalgh and Kiho Cho

Pediatric inhalation injury

Smoke inhalation injury can cause severe physiologic perturbations. In pediatric patients, these perturbations cause profound changes in cardiac and pulmonary physiology. In this review, we examine the patholo...

Authors: Soman Sen

Topical antimicrobial agents for pediatric burns

While topical antimicrobial agents are indicated for most if not all burn wounds, the choice of a topical agent must consider many factors such as the wound depth, anticipated time to healing, need for surgica...

Authors: Robert Cartotto

Considerations for pediatric burn sedation and analgesia

Burn patients experience anxiety and pain in the course of their injury, treatment, and recovery. Hence, treatment of anxiety and pain is paramount after burn injury. Children, in particular, pose challenges i...

Authors: Alice Fagin and Tina L. Palmieri

The emergence of multidrug-resistant clone ST664 Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a referral burn hospital, Isfahan, Iran

Authors: Hamid Vaez, Hajieh Ghasemian Safaei and Jamshid Faghri

A prospective analysis of risk factors for pediatric burn mortality at a tertiary burn center in North India

None of the available mortality predicting models in pediatric burns precisely predicts outcomes in every population. Mortality rates as well as their risk factors vary with regions and among different centers...

Authors: Amol Dhopte, Rahul Bamal and Vinay Kumar Tiwari

The influence of sex steroid hormones on the response to trauma and burn injury

Trauma and related sequelae result in disturbance of homeostatic mechanisms frequently leading to cellular dysfunction and ultimately organ and system failure. Regardless of the type and severity of injury, ge...

Authors: K Al-Tarrah, N Moiemen and JM Lord

Pediatric burn resuscitation: past, present, and future

Burn injury is a leading cause of unintentional death and injury in children, with the majority being minor (less than 10%). However, a significant number of children sustain burns greater than 15% total body ...

Authors: Kathleen S. Romanowski and Tina L. Palmieri

Children are not little adults: blood transfusion in children with burn injury

Blood transfusion in burns larger than 20% total body surface area (TBSA) are frequent due to operative procedures, blood sampling, and physiologic response to burn injury. Optimizing the use of blood transfus...

Authors: Tina L. Palmieri

Sepsis in the burn patient: a different problem than sepsis in the general population

Sepsis has recently been defined as “life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection”. A great amount of effort has been made to develop early treatments for sepsis throu...

Authors: David G. Greenhalgh

Comparison of ISS, NISS, and RTS score as predictor of mortality in pediatric fall

Studies to identify an ideal trauma score tool representing prediction of outcomes of the pediatric fall patient remains elusive. Our study was undertaken to identify better predictor of mortality in the pedia...

Authors: Kapil Dev Soni, Santosh Mahindrakar, Amit Gupta, Subodh Kumar, Sushma Sagar and Ashish Jhakal

The neck burn scar contracture: a concept of effective treatment

A neck scar contracture can severely and negatively affect the function of mastication, phonic, or breathing and result in neck pain and issues with esthetics. The best way is of course to avoid such contractu...

Authors: Sadanori Akita, Kenji Hayashida, Satoshi Takaki, Yoshihisa Kawakami, Takuto Oyama and Hiroyuki Ohjimi

Establishing a treatment protocol for concomitant major burn and trauma patients: a tropical Asian hospital’s experience

Authors: Yee Onn Kok, Nadia Sim, Priya Tiwari, Ting Hway Wong and Si Jack Chong

Identification of factors predicting scar outcome after burn injury in children: a prospective case-control study

There is a lack of rigorous research investigating the factors that influence scar outcome in children. Improved clinical decision-making to reduce the health burden due to post-burn scarring in children will ...

Authors: Hilary J. Wallace, Mark W. Fear, Margaret M. Crowe, Lisa J. Martin and Fiona M. Wood

ECMO in major burn patients: feasibility and considerations when multiple modes of mechanical ventilation fail

We report two cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome in burn patients who were successfully managed with good outcomes with extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) after failing multiple conventional...

Authors: Jason D. Kennedy, Wesley Thayer, Reuben Beuno, Kelly Kohorst and Avinash B. Kumar

Increased mortality in women: sex differences in burn outcomes

There is increasing evidence that sex differences may influence responses after thermal injury and affect clinical outcomes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationships between sex, thermal i...

Authors: Karen Karimi, Iris Faraklas, Giavonni Lewis, Daniel Ha, Bridget Walker, Yan Zhai, Gareth Graves and Sharmila Dissanaike

A promising tool for surgical lipotransfer: a constant pressure and quantity injection device in facial fat grafting

The purpose of this study was to preliminarily assess a constant pressure and quantity fat granule injection device for minimal invasive properties in clinic.

Authors: Mei Song, Yi Liu, Ping Liu and Xianying Zhang

The progress of Chinese burn medicine from the Third Military Medical University—in memory of its pioneer, Professor Li Ao

Professor Li Ao was one of the founders of Chinese burn medicine and one of the most renowned doctors and researchers of burns in China. He established one of the Chinese earliest special departments for burns...

Authors: Haisheng Li, Junyi Zhou, Yizhi Peng, Jiaping Zhang, Xi Peng, Qizhi Luo, Zhiqiang Yuan, Hong Yan, Daizhi Peng, Weifeng He, Fengjun Wang, Guangping Liang, Yuesheng Huang, Jun Wu and Gaoxing Luo

Erratum to: Epidemiology of burn injuries in Nepal: a systemic review

Authors: Sanjib Tripathee and Surendra Jung Basnet

Current progress in understanding the molecular pathogenesis of burn scar contracture

Abnormal wound healing is likely to induce scar formation, leading to dysfunction, deformity, and psychological trauma in burn patients. Despite the advancement of medical care treatment, scar contracture in b...

Authors: Jianglin Tan and Jun Wu

A review and critical appraisal of central axis flaps in axillary and elbow contractures

Contractures of the axilla and elbow can produce a significant impact on quality of life by reducing the ability to perform activities of daily living. Varieties of techniques are available for resurfacing def...

Authors: Durga Karki and Rajeev B. Ahuja

An evaluation of Emergency Management of Severe Burn (EMSB) course in Bangladesh: a strategic direction

Burn is one of the major public health problems in Bangladesh. Specialized personnel and technologies are required, however, in many cases they are not readily available. Taking the situation into account, Int...

Authors: Animesh Biswas, Fazlur Rahman, Peter Maitz, Kamran Ul Baset, Jahangir Hossain and Saidur Rahman Mashreky

Nutrition and metabolism in burn patients

Severe burn causes significant metabolic derangements that make nutritional support uniquely important and challenging for burned patients. Burn injury causes a persistent and prolonged hypermetabolic state an...

Authors: Audra Clark, Jonathan Imran, Tarik Madni and Steven E. Wolf