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In this study on patients with thermal trauma, we examined the effects of standard therapy plus prophylactic polyclonal immunoglobulin G (IgG) treatment on humoral and cellular contents, cell phenotype and function of the immune system, and compare these with those found in patients receiving only standard therapy. The quantitative, peripheral-blood mononuclear cell panel shows a decrease in the...
To document the risk of catheter sepsis associated with central venous catheter changes every 7 days in paediatric burn patients, an analysis of data collected prospectively on 234 such catheters was performed. During an 18-month period there were 301 acutely burned children admitted to a regional paediatric burn facility of whom 53, with an average burn size of 42 per cent TBSA, required 234 central...
The microbiological risks of using a ready-to-use 1-litre enteral feeding system (Nutrison Steriflo) in a centre for burn patients were assessed. Such a system will have a relatively long hanging time (> 8 h). This could possibly lead to increased microbiological risks, because if the feed has been contaminated during use, microbes have a longer time available to multiply to high numbers. Multiplication...
This study was carried out in the critical care area of a burn unit. The mortality of burn patients was studied over three periods: 1971-83; 1984-87; 1988-91. The first period was studied retrospectively, the more recent periods were studied prospectively. The number of patients included in the study was 2859. The incidence of fatal burns during the three periods was compared standardizing for...
In order to reduce excessive plasma loss, to alleviate the effects of devitalized tissues on the body, and to shorten the time in hospital, we attempted to perform extensive escharectomy during the shock period in extensively burned patients. Group A consisted of 21 patients, aged 9--45 years, with a mean total burn area of 63.2 ± 18.1 per cent TBSA, and full-thickness injury involving 35.9 ± 19...
The application of antibiotics in the preservation of allograft and xenograft skin is controversial. The penicillin-streptomycin combination that is commonly used in reports in the literature was ineffective in our practice. Our Tissue Bank has tested different antibiotic combinations and found a more effective and suitable combination. After aseptic retrieval of pig and cadaver split skin, the...
In most patients with lymphoedema, neither a medical nor a surgical approach can provide a cure. Due to the progressive nature of the disease, it is imperative that every attempt should be made at controlling oedema and preventing infection. As burn injury to the lymphoedematous extremity is associated with significant morbidity, we report a patient with deep burns affecting a lymphoedematous extremity.
In this report cement burns are divided into abrasion, heat and explosive type according to the cause or to the environment in which the injury occurred. This classification reflects the obvious differences in the cause, damage factors, specificity of wounds and clinical manifestation of the various types of cement burns.
Ascaris pneumonitis in areas of endemic infestation is considered a benign condition. Smoke inhalation with any burn injury can be potentially fatal. A heavy infestation of Ascaris could further exacerbate the smoke-induced lung injury. After ingested eggs hatch in the small intestine, the larvae penetrate the mucosa and invade the blood stream and are then carried to the lungs. The larvae break...
This article describes the case of a patient who suffered an electrical full thickness burn of the chest wall and a concomitant osteomyelitic complication of two ribs. A review of the existing literature on bone and joint changes after burns is presented. Osteomyelitis of ribs must be kept in mind while treating patients for chest wall burns.
The levels of the lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde (MDA) and the activity of transaminases and alkaline phosphatases were estimated in the sera of 25 thermally injured patients at various time intervals after injury. The level of MDA was increased during the early postburn period, whereas the activities of transaminases and alkaline phosphatase became elevated later after injury. It is...
This study describes the burn injuries and characteristics of patients admitted to the major adult burn unit in New South Wales, Australia. Data were collected from the medical records of all patients admitted in the 30-month study period (184 persons, 143 (78 per cent) males, 41 (22 per cent) females). The findings identified that patients were most likely to be males, aged between 25 and 34 years,...
One hundred and seventy-six patients aged 65 years and above, treated in Bangour Burns Unit during a 10-year period between 1982 and 1991 were studied in detail. Annual number of burn cases treated as inpatients in the South East of Scotland, within or outwith the Bangour burns unit, and all deaths due to burns, during the period from 1975 to 1991, among the estimated population were analysed to...
Among the current methods employed in the treatment of wounds, a moist dressing is considered to be the optimal environment for the process of healing thereby avoiding dessication of the wound bed. This study is based on the hypothesis that wound cell proliferation is dependent not only on moisture but also upon the composition of the moist microenvironment in the wound. That composition in turn...
Excision and grafting in deep partial and full skin thickness burns of the anterior cervical region in a series of 40 patients treated between 1982 and 1992 is reported. The advantages of surgical management of deep burns in this region in a single staged operation have proved its efficacy compared to the severe sequelae which appear when the standard conservation treatment is used. A comparative...
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