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Methodological study that aimed to adapt the Satisfaction with Appearance Scale (SWAP) into Brazilian Portuguese language and to assess the validity, the reliability and the dimensionality of the adapted version in a sample of Brazilian burn victims.We carried out the adaptation process according to the international literature. Construct validity was assessed by correlating the adapted version of...
This study aims to describe the incidence of complications on scalp from which a thin split-skin graft was harvested (0.005–0.007in.) of the donor site in children and adult burn victims.We reviewed the medical records of 295 burn patients admitted in the Burn Unit of the Clinical Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, from January 1998 to December 2007, whose scalps were used as donor...
A 49 year old burn victim with Down's Syndrome (Trisomy 21) was admitted with 15% body surface area (BSA) superficial burns. This was complicated by a large atrioseptal defect. Her course was stormy with difficulties encountered in managing her fluid status. Adequate fluid resuscitation was difficult to maintain with a fragile compromise between pulmonary insufficiency and renal impairment. She expired...
The objectives of this study were to verify which circumstances are present in burn accidents of patients under 12 years of age and to gather information to ground strategies to prevent those accidents. Parents or guardians of 26 patients aged under 12 years, admitted to the burns unit of the Clinical Hospital of Ribeirao Preto Medical School, Brazil, were interviewed, from March 1996 to March 1997...
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