Objective: In this study, we aimed to evaluate preschool children with major burns under inpatient treatment and to examine the reasons for those burns. Method: We retrospectively studied 255 patients between 0 and 5 years of age who suffered from major burns and who received inpatient treatment in the Burn Unit based on the guidelines of the American Burn Association between 2009 and 2011. The...

BACKGROUND Electrical burns are quite different from thermal and chemical burns. This study is from a centre which deals with job related electric burn injuries alone and thus can give a pure account of the electric burns and discuss the related peculiarities. Study aims to highlight the differences in the mechanism of electric burn injury, its mode of presentation, morbidity, complications and...

In this paper, we attempt to understand the physico-chemical changes that occur in devices during device "burn-in". We discuss the use of low frequency dielectric spectroscopy to detect, characterize and monitor changes in electrical defects present in the dielectrics of through silicon vias (TSV) for three dimensional (3D) interconnected integrated circuit devices, as the devices are subjected...

Treatment of acute burn wounds with silver sulfadiazine has raised concern of potential silver toxicity. As the wound heals, a barrier forms between the silver sulfadiazine and the blood, but this membrane is not impenetrable, and so silver absorption is still possible. In this work, we have modeled chemical systems to investigate the transport of silver sulfadiazine and silver chloride through...

accidental exposure. Kanerva et al9 described sensitization in 2 workers who suffered burns after exposure to MCI/ MI; within 24 hours these were complicated by allergic reactions. Patch testing was positive for MCI/MI. Other derivatives of isothiazolinone have also been shown to cause sensitization after accidental burns.13,14 Eczematous lesions appeared very rapidly (less than 120 hours) afte...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficiency of preserved human amniotic membrane transplantation for conjunctival surface reconstruction in cases of chemical burn. METHODS Preserved amniotic membrane transplantation was performed in 6 patients (6 eyes) having symblepharon and fornix insufficiency due to chemical burn. Amniotic membrane was sutured to the intact conjunctiva after the fibrotic tissue wa...

The object of this paper is to throw light on the criteria which apply to the degree of burn-out on a furnace burning mixed household and trade refuse. In particular, the paper concentrates on the ash discharged from the end of the grate since this represents the bulk of the ash produced by the plant. The classical approach to burn-out is to employ "carbon-in-ash" techniques familiar to combust...