gabapentin in burns

Gabapentin in Burns

I read with interest the article entitled Effect of Gabapentin on Morphine Consumption and Pain after Surgical Debridement of Burn Wounds: A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial Study and was impressed by the scientific rigor and level of detailed observation. This is especially admirable in a study performed at the front line of burn surgery. Gabapentin appears to have a role to play in the ...

The Concurrent Use of Gabapentin and Opioid Analgesia in Burns Patients

I read with interest the study by Rimaz et al. (1) which showed a statistically significant reduction in visual analogue pain scores and morphine consumption in a double blind randomised setting with 25 patients in each wing. This is not the first study to suggest that in tackling the complex mechanism of post-burn hypersensitivity, as yet not fully understood but thought to be similar to posto...

the concurrent use of gabapentin and opioid analgesia in burns patients

The Use of Gabapentin to Decrease Morphine Consumption After Surgical Debridement for Burns

I read with great interest the recent manuscript by Siamak Rimaz on “ Effect of Gabapentin on Morphine Consumption and Pain after Surgical Debridement of Burn Wounds: A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial Study” published in Archives of Trauma Research (1). In this article they recruited 50 patients and through a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study demonstrated a significant i...

Religious-spiritual interventions in burns in Iran

Burn is one of the most severe traumas experienced in humans with severe pain. Some researches indicate the positive impact of spiritual-religious interventions on different aspects of burn injuries. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate articles published in domestic and foreign databases on the effect of spirituality and religion on burn patients in Iran. The present ...

GRAM NEGATIVE BACILLI IN BURNS

In a period of nine months, 225 strains of Gram-negative bacilli isolated from burns were identified by a variety of tests in two burn centers in Tehran. The most common species were Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter agglomerans, Enterobacter cloacae and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Many strains of acinetobacter spp, providencia spp, proteus spp, ser...