OBJECTIVE This study investigated changes in serum oxidative stress parameters in burn cases compared to healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was performed in 41 burn patients with mild to severe thermal burn injuries and 38 healthy volunteers. The burn cases were selected from patients who were hospitalized in the burn unit for the treatment of second- and third-degree burns. M...

background burn dressings, debridement, surgical incisions, skin grafting and physical therapy are some of painful treatments of burn. according to the studies, distraction techniques have a significant effect on patients’ pain. the present study was designed and conducted to determine the effect of distraction on pain of dressing change in second degree burn in 3-6 year-old children. materials...

infection is the primary source of mortality in burn patients. one of the main treatment methods of burn wound infections is topical antimicrobial therapy, in which drugs have to permeate a dead tissue called eschar. unfortunately, most antimicrobial agents can not permeate eschar in therapeutic levels. surprisingly, permeation properties of this barrier and effects of chemical or environmental...

X H E QUESTION THAT I have posed may seem at first to be antiquarian in the narrowest sense. One of my colleagues suggested that I make the title more provocative by asking. Did the Mathers disagree about the Salem trials, and who cares? What could be more parochial than asking whether two embattled ministers, serving in the same congregation, disagreed toward the end of one of the most shamefu...

OBJECTIVES The pathogenesis of burn wound progression is poorly understood. Contributing factors include continuous loss of blood perfusion, excessive inflammation, and elevated apoptosis levels in wound tissue. Macroautophagy (here referred to simply as "autophagy") is associated with many chronic diseases. The authors hypothesized that autophagy is involved in burn wound progression in a rat ...

An unusual case of lightning injury is shown. Flash-over current caused the fusion of a silver necklace producing a linear full thickness burn in the neck and chest with the silver welded throughout the wound.

This paper presents a case in which a chemical burn resulted from the use of garlic as a naturopathic medicine for knee pain.

BACKGROUND One of the effects of burn injury is production of reactive oxygen species increasing general-structural damage. Such a condition is called oxidative stress. The purpose of this research was to find out whether oxidative stress is present in burnt children treated routinely and, if so, in which phase of the disease it is the most severe and how long it persists. MATERIAL AND METHOD...