OBJECTIVES To identify the proportion of adult cigarette smokers who have experienced cigarette-caused fires and burns and to describe smoker characteristics associated with increased risk of cigarette-caused fires and burns. METHODS Data on cigarette-caused fires and burns were collected in the baseline questionnaire of a randomised trial of a smoking cessation intervention conducted in New ...

BACKGROUND Burns are an important health problem in our country and in the world. In our study, we aimed to epidemiologically analyze the patients who were hospitalized in a burn unit that serves 3 million individuals in Central Anatolia. METHODS Records of 457 patients who had been hospitalized in the burn unit during the period 2008-2010 were analyzed retrospectively. Patients were assessed...

INTRODUCTION Conventional management of partial thickness facial burn wounds includes the use of silver sulphadiazine dressings. Silver sulphadiazine forms an overlying slough that makes wound healing assessment difficult. Moist exposed burn ointment (MEBO) has been proposed as the ideal burn wound dressing both for burns of the face and other sites. Proponents of MEBO claim that it accelerates...

s from this work 1. Lam DGK, RFR Brown, Rice P Accelerated wound healing of Lewisite induced chemical burns with debridement by Ultapulse and Erbium. YAG lasers. Abstracts from the best regional presentations. Annals RCSE 84(3):214 May 2002 2. Rice P, Bennett NJ, Lam DGK, Brown RFR The Role of Dermabrasion in Lewisite-induced Skin Injury. In: Proceedings of the 2000 Medical Defense Bioscience R...

The aim of this retrospective study was to examine whether serum albumin levels offer a good marker of nutritional status in patients with burns. Serum albumin levels have been used to evaluate nutritional status in burns patients, even though these levels are affected by various factors and are not specific to malnutrition. To clarify whether provision of nutrition or presence of inflammation ...

This report describes the epidemiology of burn injuries and quantifies the appropriateness of use of available interventions at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi, between July 2008 and June 2009 (370 burn patients). Burns accounted for 4.4% of all injuries and 25.9% of all burns presenting to the hospital were admitted. Most patients (67.6%) were < 15 years old and 56.2% were male. The most frequ...

In 1983 Engrav et al.1 described the efficacy of early excision of burns and immediate autografting compared with the widely-used conservative management plan for burns used at the time. Since then, most centres in the western world have been following these principles, but with somewhat different approaches. The use of xenografts was introduced in parallel with early excision of burns. We are ...

Burns remain a leading cause of injury in the paediatric population in Australia despite efforts in prevention. Advances in surgical management include novel debridement methods and blood conserving techniques. Patients with severe burns (>20%) remain significantly more complex to manage as a result of extensive alterations in metabolic processes. There appears increasing evidence to support th...

then f(z) = z. We will refer to this theorem as Burns-Krantz theorem. The Burns-Krantz theorem was generalized to finite Blaschke products by D. Chelst [3]. The proof of both Burns-Krantz theorem and the that of the theorem of Chelst uses Hopf lemma. In a recent paper, [1], L. Baracco, D.Zaitsev and G. Zampieri gave a new and elementary proof for the Burns-Krantz theorem ([1, proposition 3.1.])...

A preventable subgroup of motor vehicle injuries is burns from motor-vehicle radiators. Such burns can have a significant impact on return to work and patient psychological wellbeing.1 These injuries are commonly scald burns, often occurring following attempts to remove the lid of a hot radiator with high pressure or explosion of the radiator. This results in a spray of superheated fluid and st...