This study evaluated the regional burn health care system of the Commonwealth of Virginia using the criteria for optimal care of the burn patient designated by the American Burn Association. The data base for this evaluation was hospital records of seven hospitals in Virginia. The major shortcoming of the designated criteria was the grading system for the severity of burn injury. Using the crit...

A regional burn disaster plan for 24 burn centers located in 11 states comprising the Southern Region of the American Burn Association was developed using online and in-person collaboration between burn center directors during a 2-year period. The capabilities and preferences of burn centers in the Southern Region were queried. A website with disaster information, including a map of regional bu...

Dent (1948) first detected urinary peptides in cases of nephrosis using two-dimensional chromatography. Arneil and Wilson (1953) found a simi'ar" nephrotic" peptide spot on chromatograms obtained from the urines of patients suffering from oedema due to other causes, such as burns, scalds, or fractures. Barlow (1952) found that the blood of nephrotic patients showed a high antidiuretic activity....

UNLABELLED Oedema formation and changes in local blood flow are known phenomena in burns. The relationship between these two is not clearly described. The aim of this study was firstly to examine both the contents of red blood cells and tissue water in skin and subcutaneous fat after experimental burns of different depths in pigs, and secondly, to confirm our recent findings of the increased di...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (TA) on healing of retinal photocoagulation lesions using drug and laser dosing typically employed in clinical practice. METHODS Laser burns with a 267-μm retinal beam size at 532-nm wavelength were applied to 40 eyes of Dutch belted rabbits. Barely visible to intense lesions were produced with pulses of 5, 10, 20, and 50 ...

A. R. Moxr, M.D., and F. C. HENRIQuES, JR., Ph.D. (From the Departmen of Legal Medcixe, Harvrd Medical School, Boston, Mass.) Although it is common knowledge that there is an inverse relationship between the intensity of a thermal exposure and the amount of time required to produce a burn, there is remarkably little available information as to the rate at which burning of huiman skin occurs at ...

The majority of burn centres use the crystalloid-based Parkland formula to guide fluid therapy, but patients actually receive far more fluid than the formula predicts. Resuscitation with large volumes of crystalloid has numerous adverse consequences, including worsening of burn oedema, conversion of superficial into deep burns, and compartment syndromes. Resuscitation fluids influence the infla...

Burns form 5-12% of all traumas. About 2,200 of patients are annually hospitalized in Lithuania. In most cases people of the employable age get burned. The treatment is often long-lasting, and afterwards recovered patients often have invalidity from burn sequels. The mortality of hospitalized burned patients is about 10%. The most common causes of death are pulmonary edema, pneumonia, sepsis an...

BACKGROUND Burn-trauma patient encounters constitute 5% of the emergency department population. HYPOTHESIS A large urban hospital will treat twice as many (ie, 10%) burn-trauma patients. DESIGN Retrospective 44-month study. SETTING Metropolitan county hospital. PATIENTS Population-based sample of burn-only (n = 1102), burn-trauma (n = 120), and assault burn-trauma (n = 43) patients. M...

THE PURPOSE of this paper is to summarize, for the benefit of busy surgeons in Casualty and Accident Departments, the role of plastic surgery in relation to injuries-including bums-in which the patient has suffered a serious breach of the 'skin envelope'; and also to consider certain aspects of facial injuries. It is not easy to cover so wide a subject in a small space, and technical details ca...