Seasonal impact in admissions and burn profiles in a desert burn unit

Burn unit: colonization of burn wounds and local environment.

BACKGROUND We present the results of a comparative prospective study of the resistance profile of strains isolated from pathological material of patients hospitalized in the burn unit of the military hospital in Rabat and from their environment over a period of one and a half years (July 2009-February 2011). METHODS The study concerned 125 pathological products from patients (40 men, 20 women...

Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

Infection control in the burn unit.

The survival rates for burn patients have improved substantially in the past few decades due to advances in modern medical care in specialized burn centers. Burn wound infections are one of the most important and potentially serious complications that occur in the acute period following injury. In addition to the nature and extent of the thermal injury influencing infections, the type and quant...

The Essential Burn Unit Handbook

Burn care is a rapidly changing field that is increasingly managed in very specialized units. The aim of the two authors of this book was to produce a concise distillation of current burn care based on the practices of the Philadelphia Burn Unit. The handbook was targeted primarily at trainees who are responsible for the day-to-day care of burn victims, whether they be working in emergency room...

Reduction in paediatric burn admissions over 25 years, 1970-94.

Objective-To describe trends in burn admissions to a large paediatric burn centre, between 1970 and 1994. Methods-Hospital records of the Royal Children's Hospital burns unit were audited for the years 1970-94 (n=4992), statewide hospital admissions identified from the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Database for the period, 1987-94 (n=3353), and Victorian burn deaths ascertained from the Australia...