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  1. Previous reports individually identified different factors that predict death after burns. The authors employed the multi-center American Burn Association’s (ABA) National Burn Repository (NBR) to elucidate wh...

    Authors: Dmitry Zavlin, Vishwanath Chegireddy, Stefanos Boukovalas, Anna M. Nia, Ludwik K. Branski, Jeffrey D. Friedman and Anthony Echo
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:24
  2. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:22
  3. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:21
  4. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:23
  5. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:19
  6. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:18
  7. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:17
  8. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:13
  9. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:14
  10. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:16
  11. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:12
  12. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:10
  13. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:9
  14. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:6
  15. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:7
  16. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:8
  17. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:2
  18. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:5
  19. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2018 6:3
  20. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:37
  21. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:36
  22. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:35
  23. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:34
  24. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:31
  25. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:33
  26. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:28
  27. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:30
  28. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:26
  29. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:25
  30. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:22
  31. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:19
  32. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:20
  33. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:18
  34. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:16
  35. 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
    Citation: Burns & Trauma 2017 5:12