TOPIC: Pediatrics TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Bronchiectasis is often considered to involve irreversible airway damage. We present a patient who developed significant bronchiectasis after smoke inhalation, with near complete resolution few months later. CASE PRESENTATION: An eight-year-old female presented she sustained injuries in trailer fire. She was intubated due facial burns, a...

The authors present an extensive review of burn epidemiology. They review sources of burns, preventive tools, emergency behaviors to reduce severity, and rehabilitation. Ways are sketched in which the pediatrician can be an effective advocate against burn injuries.

are guided and controlled by some outside power, whether this power be God, an electric machine, a malicious enemy or a hypnotist makes no intrinsic difference; (2) The feeling of the unreality of the external world, objective experience; and (3) The feeling of the unreality of one's self, subjective experience. Before attempting an analysis, I shall briefly describe a number of cases, which pr...

ALTHOUGH for many years it has been recognized that relationships exist between the chemical structures of certain compounds and their pharmacological properties, those interdependencies1 which have been observed have served more to correlate existing data in many isolated sectors of the field of drug action than to serve as guideposts on the road of medicine and research ahead. Therefore it ha...

Burn injuries are an important global health problem. Most simple burns can be managed by general practitioners in primary care, but complex burns and all major burns warrant a specialist and skilled multidisciplinary approach for a successful clinical outcome. This article discusses the principles behind managing major burns and scalds using an evidence based approach andprovides a framework f...

BACKGROUND Burn injuries have a major impact on the patient's physical and psychological functioning. The consequences can, especially in pediatric burns, persist long after the injury. A decrease in physical fitness seems logical as people survive burn injuries after an often extensive period of decreased activity and an increased demand of proteins leading to catabolism, especially of muscle ...