Treatment before transfer: the patient with burns

Voice Recovery in a Patient with Inhaled Laryngeal Burns

Introduction: Laryngeal burns cause long-term voice disorders due to mucosal changes of the vocal folds. Inhalation injuries affect voice production and result in changes in the mucosal thickness and voice quality.   Case Report: A 47-year-old woman was transferred to our department with laryngeal burns sustained during a house fire. On laryngoscopic examination, mucosal waves of both vocal fol...

Immunophenotyping of Immune Cells in Peripheral Blood of TB Patient with Positive Smear Before Treatment

ABSTRACT Regarding cellular immunity function and macrophage system in tuberculosis infection control and also tuberculosis high spread in Gilan province and as many studies about tuberculosis has done in chronic and acute progressive process. This study was examined thirty persons smear positive with clinical symptoms and recognition infections expert before Treatment. Tuberculosis patients ...

Pain in the patient with burns

and disfiguring forms of trauma, as it affects the skin, the largest andmost visible organ. The National Burn Care Review (British Burn Association, 2001) determined that as many as 500,000 people suffer a burn injury each year in the UK. Most are minor. Around 13,000 people, of which 45% are children, are admitted to hospital; only a small proportion have severe injuries requiring resuscitatio...

The Treatment of Burns

Patient selection before endobronchial valve treatment.

We read with great interest the study by HERTH et al. [1]. They investigated the ability of the bronchoscopic Chartis Pulmonary Assessment System to predict the response to unidirectional endobronchial valve (EBV) treatment by determining the presence of collateral ventilation (CV) and the Chartis system showed an accuracy level of 75% in predicting whether or not the target lobe volume reducti...