BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Despite advances, inappropriate analgesic treatment for burn patients is still seen. The objective of this review was to collect data on pain management in burn patients. CONTENT We reviewed the mechanisms of pain, burn patient assessment, as well as pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment. CONCLUSION Pain management in burn patients is still a challenge ...

background: failure in the treatment of burn patients infected with pseudomonas aeruginosa could happen as a result of the acquisition of antibiotic resistance, including carbapenems. objectives: the aim of the present study was to investigate the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, isolated from burn patients. patients and methods: during a 12 month ...

BACKGROUND Burn injuries can have adverse effects on quality of life of patients and can disturb their physiological, psychological, social and spiritual well-being. This study aimed to investigate the effect of multimedia self-care program on quality of life in burn patients. METHODS This Randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted from November 2015 to December 2016. The samples w...

Burn injury is a leading cause of life-threatening trauma worldwide, affecting more than 450,000 Americans each year, and is associated with an average mortality rate of 0.8%. Patients with an increased risk of death from burn injuries include elderly patients and patients with large burns or inhalation injury. Providing optimal care for patients with major burn injuries requires the coordinate...

BACKGROUND Burn patients constitute approximately 5% of casualties injured in support of US military operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom [OIF]) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom [OEF]). Since the onset of these conflicts, there have been numerous casualties infected with multidrug-resistant bacteria. It is currently unclear if bacteremia with these multidrug-resistant organism...

Background: Thermal injury can cause many changes in the skin-local responseand in the body in general –systemic response; the metabolic changes represent an important one among systemic response. Dyslipidemia after burn injury is one of the important alterations that resulted from many factors like hypermetabolic state in burn, release of hormones and inflammatory mediators, the aim of this st...

DEAR EDITOR Burn is one of the devastating conditions in emergency medicine resulting into physical and psychological disabilities.1 During pregnancy, it has an increasing trend for mortality and morbidity of both mother and infant.2 So practical activities to decrease its physical and emotional complications seem mandatory.2 For survivors, the most persisting problem is scarring while healing ...

The management of serious burn injuries during pregnancy is an unsolved clinical problem because of the low incidence of this disease. Although it has been documented that the effect of burns on fetal and maternal survival is detrimental, there have been conflicting reports among the different burn centers regarding the mortality of burned pregnant women and the management of burn patients duri...

The mortality of burn patients remains high in spite of the advances made in treating initial burn shock, controlling burn wound infection, and providing nutritional support. Smoke inhalation is recognized as a strong determinant of morbidity and mortality in burn patients, and most burn patients die because of associated inhalation injury. There are many reports on this combined injury (cutane...