Thermal injury historically constitutes approximately 5% to 20% of conventional warfare casualties. This article reviews medical planning for burn care during war in Iraq and experience with burns during the war at the US Army Burn Center; aboard the USNS Comfort hospital ship; and at Combat Support Hospitals in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Two burn surgeons were deployed to the military hospital i...

[1] The impact to the permafrost during and after wildfire was studied using 11 boreal forest fire sites including two controlled burns. Heat transfer by conduction to the permafrost was not significant during fire. Immediately following fire, ground thermal conductivity may increase 10-fold and the surface albedo can decrease by 50% depending on the extent of burning of the surficial organic s...

AIM This retrospective study evaluated the epidemiology of burn injuries, due to paint thinner ignition, in patients treated at the burn units of a university hospital network. METHODS From 1997 to 2005, 28 patients with thermal burns caused by ignition of paint thinner were admitted to our burn units. Age, sex, etiologic factors, extent and localization of burns, length of hospitalization, o...

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the epidemiology and outcome of paint thinner induced burn injuries at a local burn center. A retrospective analysis of 55 patient paint thinner thermal burn cases was conducted. Relevant patients’ data such as age, sex, etiologic factors, burn extent and localization, employed methods of treatment, hospitalization period, and results were evaluated i...

In previous studies published from this laboratory (1) it was shown that 2 major factors are implicated in the production of burn shock in mice and rats; the one, fluid loss at the site of the thermal injury, and the other, stagnation of blood in atonic visceral capillaries. Capillary atony was demonstrated in burn shock whether thermal trauma was accompanied by much or little local fluid loss....

The comfort of heated car seats has gained popularity worldwide. We present a rare case of severe second- and third-degree burn in the lower back and sacral region of a 42-year-old post-traumatic paraplegic patient while using a heated car seat. The patient was admitted to our burn unit and required several reconstructive surgery procedures. Inadvertent thermal injury is a constant potential ha...

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...

A mild trauma in the form of a thermal burn was applied to corneas of vitamin A--deficient rats and their pair-fed controls. The control corneas routinely showed rapid re-epithelialization without stromal changes. The corneas of deficient rats recovered more slowly, frequently exhibiting stromal edema, leukoma, and sometimes ulceration. Because collagenase is thought to initiate collagen destru...

The objectives of this study were 1) to establish clinical profiles of dysphagic and nondysphagic individuals following thermal burn injury and 2) to provide a clinical profile of the progression and outcome of dysphagia resolution by hospital discharge for a dysphagic cohort. A total of 438 consecutively admitted patients with thermal burns were included. All patients underwent a clinical swal...

Burn injury is a cause of significant mortality and morbidity worldwide and is frequently associated with severe and long-lasting pain that remains difficult to manage throughout recovery. We characterised a mouse model of burn-induced pain using pharmacological and transcriptomic approaches. Mechanical allodynia elicited by burn injury was partially reversed by meloxicam (5 mg/kg), gabapentin ...