Outcome prediction in severe burn injury: clinical versus laboratory markers

Prediction of clinical outcome in severe traumatic brain injury.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the main cause of death and disability in adults worldwide. Early detection of TBI would be useful for evaluating and designing treatment strategies. Both single predictors from early clinical examination and multiple hospitalization variables/parameters can be used to determine the long-term prognosis of TBI. Predictive models like the IMPACT or CRASH prognosis ...

Perceived Physical and Psychological Outcome After Severe Burn Injury

Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

Laboratory heparin resistance in burn injury complicated by venous thrombosis.

Anticoagulation with heparin is required in the management of the burn patient if their clinical course is complicated by venous thrombosis. Heparin therapy is commonly monitored by the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) but this assay can be unreliable in patients with acute inflammation because of an increase in plasma factor VIII levels that result in an underestimation of the hepa...

Prediction of clinical outcome with serum transthyretin level of early post-burn period in massive burn patients: retrospective observational study

Introduction: We observed serum transthyretin (TTR) constantly maintained low even with adequate nutritional support if the patients’ general conditions are poor. We conducted this study to analyze the change of serum TTR with time from injury in massive burn patient and verify the validity of prediction of clinical outcome with serum TTR of early post-burn period. Methods: From January of 2005...