Gallaher, Jared R Purcell, Laura N Banda, Wone Charles, Anthony
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Burn injury is a significant contributor to mortality, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Patients in many communities throughout sub-Saharan Africa use traditional health practitioners for burn care prior to seeking evaluation at an allopathic burn center. The World Health Organization defines a traditional health practitioner ...
Crofton, E Meredith, P J Gray, P Strong, J
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Compression garments are well accepted as routine practice for scar management after burn. In a recent systematic review, six main reasons for compression garment non-adherence were identified including sensory disturbances. To further understand the impact of sensory issues, the aim of the present study is to investigate associations between senso...
Potokar, T Bendell, R Chamania, S Falder, S Nnabuko, R Price, P E
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Consistent evidence has emerged over many years that the mortality and morbidity outcomes for burn patients in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) lag behind those in more resource rich countries. Interburns is a charity that was set up with the aim of working to reduce the disparity in the number of cases of burns as well as the outcomes for p...
Herrero De Lucas, Eva Sanchez-Sanchez, Manuel Cachafeiro Fuciños, Lucia Agrifoglio Rotaeche, Alexander Martínez Mendez, Jose Ramón Flores Cabeza, Eva Millan Estañ, Pablo García-de-Lorenzo, Abelardo
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Lactate levels to guide resuscitation in critically burned patients are controversial. The purpose of our study was to determine whether absolute lactate values or lower lactate clearance predict mortality, and whether these are useful tools in the resuscitation phase. We conducted a prospective, unicentric, observational study of a cohort of 214 b...
Escandón-Vargas, Kevin Tangua, Andrés Ricardo Medina, Pedro Zorrilla-Vaca, Andrés Briceño, Esteban Clavijo-Martínez, Tania Tróchez, Juan P
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain a major challenge in burn research and care. We aimed to describe the epidemiology and timeline of HAIs and to estimate the association of demographics and clinical characteristics with time to HAI among burn patients. A prospective cohort study was conducted in a referral burn unit in southwestern Col...
Nickel, Kevin J Omeis, Tyler Papp, Anthony
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
This study evaluated trends in demographics and outcomes of cutaneous burns over a forty-year period at a Canadian burn centre. Retrospective review was performed of all consecutive adult burn admissions to the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) between 1976 and 2015. Comparison was made to the 2016 American Burn Association - National Burn Repositor...
Park, Jin Ju Seo, Yu Bin Lee, Jacob Choi, Young Kyun Jeon, Jinwoo
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Carbapenem-resistant gram negative pathogen (CR-GNP) infection in burn patients is a growing concern since treatment options are limited and resistance to the main line of treatment, colistin, is increasing. The goal of this study was to compare treatment outcomes of colistin monotherapy versus colistin-based combination therapy for CR-GNP bacterem...
Tirado-Esteban, Ana Seoane, Jose Luis Serracanta Domènech, Jordi Aguilera-Sáez, Jorge Barret, Juan P
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Burned patients may present with different type and severity of sensory dysfunction. Regenerative mechanisms in the peripheral nervous system are diminished after burn injury and thus unable to accurately regenerate somatosensitive skin receptors. The pattern by which neuronal regeneration occurs to regain this sensitivity in burn patients is still...
Holzer, Judith C J Tiffner, Katrin Kainz, Sonja Reisenegger, Peter Bernardelli de Mattos, Ives Funk, Martin Lemarchand, Thomas Laaff, Helmut Bal, Ayse Birngruber, Thomas
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Burn wound progression is a significant problem as burns initially thought to be superficial can actually become full thickness over time. Cooling is an efficient method to reduce burn wound conversion. However, if the cooling agent is below room temperature, depending on the wound size the patient is at risk of hypothermia. Additionally, tissue pe...
Choong, Mun-Yau Tou, Sio-Ian Chang, Chia-Ling Kuo, Yu-Hung Huang, Chia-Yu
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
We investigated whether the availability of a tap water supply system is associated with lowering the admission rate 30 days after burn injury. We analysed data from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000 from the National Health Research Institutes. It contains a random sample of 1,000,000 subjects out of 22 million beneficiaries of the N...
