OBJECTIVE To analyze the occurrence of fungal wound infection (FWI) after thermal injury and its relationship to mortality. BACKGROUND FWI is an uncommon but potentially lethal complication of severe thermal injury. METHODS The records of patients with thermal burns admitted to a single burn center (1991-2002) were reviewed. Analyses accounted for total burn size (TBS, percentage body surfa...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Incidence of hospital-acquired diarrhea has increased rapidly and burn patients are at high risk of getting it. Infection with C. difficile is the most common cause of antibiotic associated diarrhea. The aim of this study was to determine the baseline characteristics and clinical presentation of hospital-acquired diarrhea and compare C. difficile and non-C. difficile d...

Background & Aims of the Study: In spite remarkable progress in the anti-microbial treatment in the last 60 years and despite all the care in the health system, infectious diseases especially burn wound infection is a major problem and one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality for burn patients. Certainly, the identification, review and updating of bacterial infections and the...

Development of metrics for burn care, including healing of skin wounds during the acute phase of treatment, is essential in an environment of decreasing resources and increasing interest in quality and accuracy of medical information. Advantages of consensus metrics include: tracking of trends in care; consistency of care; and correlation of treatment with medical outcomes. For cutaneous burn w...

Trichosporon asahii is a ubiquitous fungus that has been isolated as part of human microbiota. There has been an emergence of this pathogen in recent years, causing superficial and deep seated infections. There are scarce reports of urinary tract infections in pediatric intensive care burn units caused by this agent. We describe the cases of 2 pediatric patients with prolonged hospitalization d...

conclusion preventive programs for reducing the risk of burns are needed. furthermore, high percentage of tbsa and mortality and the presence of multi-drugs resistance bacteria are major concerns in our hospital. patients and methods in a descriptive study, medical files of 6082 consecutive admissions for burn injury treated at taleghani burn hospital over a five-year period were reviewed. resu...

The goal of this study was to analyse plasma procalcitonin (PCT) concentrations during infectious events of burns in ICU. We conducted a prospective, observational study in a 20-bed Burn Intensive Care Unit in Tunisia. A total of 121 patients admitted to the Burn ICU were included in our study. Serum PCT was measured over the entire course of stay in patients with predictive signs of sepsis acc...

BACKGROUND Patients with burns are susceptible to organ failure, and there is indirect evidence that leukocytes may contribute to this process. They may change the expression of cell-surface receptors after certain stimuli, for example, the burn. We therefore aimed to assess the changes induced by the burn in the expression of leukocyte cell-surface receptors CD11b, CD14, CD16, and CD62L on the...