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Since opening its doors in 1962, the Parkland Burn Center has played an important role in improving the care of burned children through basic and clinical research while also sponsoring community prevention programs. The aim of our study was to retrospectively analyze the characteristics and outcomes of pediatric burns at a single institution over 35 years.The institutional burn database, which contains...
Bacterial infections are a common cause of mortality in burn patients and viral infections, notably herpes simplex virus (HSV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) have also been associated with mortality. This study is a retrospective review of all autopsy reports from patients with severe thermal burns treated at the US Army Institute of Research (USAISR) burn unit over 12 years. The review focused on those...
Advancements in burn care therapy have extended survival of seriously burned patients, exposing burn patients to increased risk of infectious complications, notably fungal infections. We performed a 12-year review of autopsied patients with severe burns for the presence of fungal infection at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center between February 1991 and November 2003. The primary...
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