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Skin care is an important but often neglected issue in burn management. Newly healed burn skin is fragile, itchy, dry, and susceptible to sunburn. Without proper skin care in burn patients, they may suffer from sleep and mood disturbances, depression, and poor compliance to treatment that can jeopardize the rehabilitation process. At the Prince of Wales Hospital, skin care has been managed since February...
An unusual cause of burn, contact with boiling wax by children and adolescents during the annual mid-autumn festival in Hong Kong is presented. 57 patients who suffered from hot wax burn over the period 1986-1996 were admitted to the Burns Unit of the Prince of Wales Hospital. This special burn should be preventable by public education.
The biocompatibility of artificial skin (Integra) has been investigated in clean surgical wounds of 20 guinea-pigs. A rectangular 3 3 cm full-thickness skin defect with excision carried down to the panniculus carnosus was prepared on the dorsal area of the guinea-pig. A thin layer of silver sulfadiazine cream was applied and artificial skin was placed to cover the wound. At day 14, the uppermost...
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