Burn injury introduces unique clinical challenges that make it difficult to extrapolate mechanical ventilator (MV) practices designed for the management of general critical care patients to the burn population. We hypothesize that no consensus exists among North American burn centers with regard to optimal ventilator practices. The purpose of this study is to examine various MV practice pattern...

Deceptive Nature of Atrial Premature Contractions: Ablating 2 Arrhythmias With 1 Burn Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2014 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.011155 2014;130:e148-e150 Circulation. http://circ.ahajournal...

The American Burn Association, Children's Burn Foundation, and Christian Medical College in Vellore, India have partnered together to improve pediatric burn care in Southern India. We report the demographics and outcomes of burns in this center, and create a benchmark to measure the effect of the partnership. A comparison to the National Burn Repository is made to allow for generalization and a...

The American Burn Association Consensus Conference on Burn Sepsis and Infection Group; David G. Greenhalgh, MD,* Jeffrey R. Saffle, MD,† James H. Holmes, IV, MD,‡ Richard L. Gamelli, MD,§ Tina L. Palmieri, MD,* Jureta W. Horton, PhD,¶ Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, Daniel L. Traber, PhD,** David W. Mozingo, MD,†† Edwin A. Deitch, MD,‡‡ Cleon W. Goodwin, MD,§§ David N. Herndon, MD,** James J. Gallagher...

A regional burn disaster plan for 24 burn centers located in 11 states comprising the Southern Region of the American Burn Association was developed using online and in-person collaboration between burn center directors during a 2-year period. The capabilities and preferences of burn centers in the Southern Region were queried. A website with disaster information, including a map of regional bu...

Intracavitary brachytherapy treatment has a very important role in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer. Brachytherapy is painful procedure, especially whom opening cannot be achieved, and requires analgesia immobilization. The American Association (ABA) recommends the use of conscious sedation as much possible intracavitary high-doserate (HDR) applications diagnosed In this review, w...

Background Due to greater infection susceptibility, sepsis is the main cause of death in burn patients. Quick diagnosis and patient stratification, early and appropriated antimicrobial therapy, and focus control are crucial for patients' survival. On the other hand, superfluous extension of therapy is associated with adverse events and arousal of microbial resistance. The use of biomarkers, nec...

The effect of burn center volume on mortality has been demonstrated in adults. The authors sought to evaluate whether such a relationship existed in burned children. The National Burn Repository, a voluntary registry sponsored by the American Burn Association, was queried for all data points on patients aged 18 years or less and treated from 2002 to 2011. Facilities were divided into quartiles ...

Introduction: In the USA, traumatic injuries are leading cause of death before age 45 and have significantly lower mortality if treated in a verified trauma center. Burn included statistics represent 1.1 million injured people annually seeking medical assistance. Routing burn to ABA-recognized centers has yet be assessed as it injury. Our goal was examine impact prehospital routing on hospital ...

Treating pain in burn patients with a history of opioid or drug abuse is challenging. There no consensus on management for usage. Our aim was to study the association previous addiction and treatment acute patients, focusing daily morphine milligram equivalent (MME) requirements outcomes. We compared (group 1) without 2) who were admitted an American Burn Association verified center using Premi...