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Infections remain the leading cause of death in burn patients. Immune responses play an important role in patient's defense mechanism against infection and decreasing morbidity and mortality associated with burn. Our goal was to determine serum immunoglobulin levels in pediatric burn patients in order to understand role of humoral immune defense in these patients. During this analytic cross sectional...
In Pakistan the practice of managing extensive burns in dedicated intensive care units is not well established. This audit aims to define the characteristics of the victims of major burns and factors that increase mortality and outcome of the protocol-based management in a dedicated burns intensive care unit (BICU).This prospective audit included all patients admitted to the BICU of Suleiman Dawood...
Keloid formation is closely related with transforming growth factor (TGF)-β-induced Smad signal transduction. Recent studies have shown that toll-like receptor4 (TLR4) may mediate liver and kidney fibrosis, and activation of TLR7 has anti-scarring effect. The role of TLR4/7 signalling in keloid formation, however, remains unknown. Our previous tests have found that mute Smad4 inhibited scar. We then...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Acinetobacter baumannii are major nosocomial pathogens in burns units. We investigated the impact of an infection control bundle on the incidence of nosocomial MRSA and A. baumannii in our burns unit, comparing a pre-intervention period (December 2006–August 2008) with an intervention period (September 2008–December 2009). The bundle comprised...
The kerosene stove is a common cooking appliance in lower and middle income households in Kenya and if it explodes, life threatening thermal burn injuries may be sustained by those using the appliance. Women tend to be victims more frequently since traditionally they are the ones who are involved in cooking.The aim of this study was to determine risk factors predisposing to kerosene stove explosion...
Fungal wound infection is a leading cause of burn wound infections, and diagnosis is often delayed as it conventionally requires culture and histopathology. Fungal screening assays have sped diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in other populations. Few studies have evaluated the performance of fungal screening assays outside of the hematologic malignancy and hematopoietic stem cell transplant...
The 21st century burn care team epitomises integrated multidisciplinary care. The physical, psychological and socials needs of burn victims necessitates the close collaboration of a broad spectrum of health care professionals. The ultimate aim is to return the patient to the optimal level of physical and psychological health and social function.The modern burn care team must not only consider the...
Many surgeons have to face the challenge of the sophisticated management of catastrophic high-voltage injuries to upper extremities. These patients present with both vast soft tissue defects and varied segmental main artery defects with compromised circulation of the distal limb. This study is a first attempt to analyze the outcome of the flow-through anterolateral thigh flap for reconstruction in...
To evaluate the impact of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) on mortality and length of stay in burn patients.Retrospective cohort study.A 750-bed tertiary care university hospital in Cologne, Germany.Patients registered in the database of the burn intensive care unit (BICU) between 1989 and 2009 with complete data sets (n=1688).Over the 21-year study period, 74 patients...
Retrospective studies are essential to evaluate and improve the efficiency of care of burned patients. This study analyses the work done in the burn unit of Hospital de S. João in the north of Portugal. A retrospective review was performed in patients admitted from 2006 to 2009. The study population was characterised regarding patient demographics, admissions profile, burn aetiology, burn site, extension...
A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to assess the level of evidence for the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in hypoxemic respiratory failure resulting from burn and smoke inhalation injury. We searched any article published before March 01, 2012. Available studies published in any language were included. Five authors rated each article and assessed the methodological...
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has gained increasing interest as an important indicator of adaptation after a burn injury. Our objective was to compare HRQoL of medium severity hospitalized burn victims with no need for intensive care treatment with that of the general population.The 15D HRQoL questionnaire at discharge, and 6, 12 and 24 months thereafter.44 patients filled in the baseline...
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