INTRODUCTION AND AIMS There is a need, both in clinical and research settings, for an affordable, objective method of assessing burn depth. This study compares burn depth assessment by videomicroscopy with laser Doppler imaging (LDI) in patients with dermal burns. The videomicroscope is inexpensive compared to LDI, and can visualise the dermal capillary structure, therefore potentially allowing...

Committing Suicide is an awful way to die as well as a historical psycho-social problem of human community worldwide. Suicide is an action deliberately initiated and performed by a person with complete awareness of its fatal outcome, prevalence of which is very rare in developed countries, but it is reported with more frequency in Baltic region, Africa (including Egypt), The Middle East (includ...

A burn injury is one of the most severe forms of trauma that can be sustained (National Burn Care Review Committee Report [NBCR], 2001). Burns and scalds can have a wide variety of causes such as thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical or radiation, but all will involve coagulative destruction of the skin (Rawlins, 2011). About 250,000 people sustain burn injuries in the UK every year; 175,00...

Children with upper extremity burns frequently develop axillary contractures that can restrict movement. Surgical axillary contracture release is performed to restore function. The purpose of this study is to determine the long-term effects (up to 7 years) of surgical axillary contracture release on upper extremity motion during simulated activities of daily living using three-dimensional motio...

UNLABELLED  Background. Outcomes following burn injury have improved considerably in recent years due to early excision and skin grafting. Despite a reduction in late burn complications, up to 70% of patients experience long-term pain at both the injured area and the skin-grafted scar. Current therapies do not ameliorate these symptoms for a majority of these patients. This report present...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the epidemiological characteristics of pediatric burns in Beijing City. METHODS This was a retrospective study of pediatric patients (n = 400) admitted to four burn centers in Beijing City between June 2010 and May 2011. Burn severity was determined according to total body surface area (TBSA) percentage and degree. Patients were followed up for one year. ...

This article reports a clinical study investigating the role of polarised-light therapy in the conservative treatment of deep dermal burn wounds. In 22 out of 67 patients with deep dermal burn wounds, clinical evaluation revealed only a very limited potential for spontaneous healing, and, despite the fact that the majority of the surgeons (four out of six) would have recommended surgery, these ...

Access to specialized burn care is becoming more difficult and is being restricted by the decreasing number of specialized burn centers. It is also limited by distance and resources for many patients, particularly those living in poverty or in rural medically underserved communities. Telemedicine is a rapidly evolving technology related to the practice of medicine at a distance through rapid ac...

The Gaza Strip faces a chronic solid waste (SW) management and electricity shortage problem as a result of fifty years of political instability in the area coupled with a high population growth rate, an unhealthy economic condition, and limited land and energy resources. The option to develop a waste to energy (WTE) facility to manage SW and to alleviate the electricity shortage has not been pr...