This retrospective review contains 127 paediatric burns up to 14 years of age admitted to the Burn Unit of the Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, SMS. Medical College, Jaipur over a period of 1 year from January 1990. Epidemiological data include age, sex, seasonal variation, place of burn, family size, economic status, period of time between the accident and admission to hospital. The ca...

There are few articles about the homeless in burn literature. We sought to determine the demographic characteristics of the homeless citizens admitted to an urban burn center. This was a retrospective review from March 1999 to May 2004. Statistical analysis included chi2 and one-way analysis of variance. There were 1615 burn admissions, and 73 (4.5%) of these patients were homeless. Although th...

BACKGROUND Electrical burns are quite different from thermal and chemical burns. This study is from a centre which deals with job related electric burn injuries alone and thus can give a pure account of the electric burns and discuss the related peculiarities. Study aims to highlight the differences in the mechanism of electric burn injury, its mode of presentation, morbidity, complications and...

Background and Purpose: Vitamin C is administered orally or intravenously for the treatment of burn wounds. However, effects of the topical application of vitamin C remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of topical vitamin C solution on the necrotic tissue volume of second-degree burn wounds. Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 30 patients with second-degree burns a...

Background; Futile care; a medical term applied when there is no reasonable hope of improvement or cure in spite expense surgical care. care decision governed by variety scoring systems to evaluate clinical situation and direct effort respecting the patient requirement, surrogate allowance. Where treatment being futile another view must be sought for afflicted patient. 
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OBJECTIVE Most of the literature about Curling's ulcer was published from 1960 through 1980. Therefore, an updated study of Curling's ulcer is needed. We analyzed the risk factors affecting ulcer incidence in burn patients. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of burn patients who were admitted to two burn centers. We collected information about the general characteristics ...

Self-immolation represented 3.9% of patients (N = 7) at this burn unit over the last 18 months. Charts of these patients were retrospectively reviewed for demographics, hospital course, and discharge plan. All had a major psychiatric diagnosis, although no clear patient profile emerged. These patients required complex individualized care, but the psychosocial treatment challenges had many commo...