Accurate and timely assessment of burn wound severity is a critical component of wound management and has implications related to course of treatment. While most superficial burns and full thickness burns are easily diagnosed through visual inspection, burns that fall between these extremes are challenging to classify based on clinical appearance. Because of this, appropriate burn management ma...

OBJECTIVE To delineate blood transfusion practices and outcomes in patients with major burn injury. CONTEXT Patients with major burn injury frequently require multiple blood transfusions; however, the effect of blood transfusion after major burn injury has had limited study. DESIGN Multicenter retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING Regional burn centers throughout the United States and Ca...

The effects of Aloe vera on microcirculation and levels of TNF-α and IL-6 were investigated in rats after inducing burn. Seventy-two male Wistar Furth rats were equally divided into four groups as follow: controls (CON), untreated burnwound rats (BURN), normal saline-treated burn-wound rats (BURN-NSS) and Aloe vera-treated burn-wound rats (BURNALOE). The animals in each group were equally subdi...

Studies from animal models suggest that myocardial mitochondrial damage contributes to cardiac dysfunction after burn injury. In this report, we used an ex vivo model of primary cardiomyocyte culture to investigate the mechanisms of burn-induced mitochondrial impairment. Briefly, blood serum was collected from Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats subjected to 40% total body surface area burn and added (10%...

Satellite-inferred burn severity data have become increasingly popular over the last decade for management and research purposes. These data typically quantify spectral change between pre-and post-fire satellite images (usually Landsat). There is an active debate regarding which of the two main equations, the delta normalized burn ratio (dNBR) and its relativized form (RdNBR), is most suitable ...

The development of burn scar contracture is a pathologic condition. Burn scar contracture is defined as a loss of motion of a joint or anatomic structure as a result of normal skin being replaced by inextensible scar tissue. The presence of a burn scar contracture has been shown to have a negative impact on a burn survivor’s quality of life, particularly in regards to physical functioning. A fo...

To assess the outcome of burn patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, we performed a 7-year retrospective review of burn patients admitted to the National Defense Medical College. Seventy-seven skin burn patients over 10 years of age were included in this study and divided into two groups, neuropsychiatry and control groups. The neuropsychiatry group consisted of self-inflicted burn patients ...

Burns of less than 10% total body surface area (TBSA) are common injuries in children under five years age. The inflammatory response to burn injury is well recognised for burns greater 20% TBSA but has not been described smaller burns. aim this study was describe the systemic young with small-area Morbidity In Small Thermal Injury Children (MISTIC) a multicentre prospective observational cohor...

Background: General practitioners are the first who visit burn patients and they first calculate burn size and required fluid for the patient. Error in calculation can be disastrous. The purpose of this study is to compare four methods of estimating burn size to teach students. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic study on 37 medical students. Four methods of estimating burn percentage was t...

Definitions It is very important for the clinician caring for a burn victim to know the depth, or degree, of burn. A first-degree burn is superficial, dry, painful to touch, and heals in less than 1 week. A second-degree burn is partial thickness and pink or possibly mottled red. It exhibits bullae or frank weeping on the surface. It usually is painful unless classified as deep and heals in 1 t...