Letter: Diathermy burn hazard.

Car seat heaters as a potential burn hazard: a clarification.

This letter is submitted to address an error in an article previously published in this journal that has led to confusion concerning the thermal conditions that cause skin burns. The thermal comfort of vehicle occupants has been an issue of concern from the earliest days of automobile design. Many embodiments of vehicular climate control systems have evolved over the years, including the introd...

Sparklers as a major hazard for burn injury.

Injuries caused by sparklers are a particular hazard for young children. Case reports highlight the potential severity of such injuries and recommendations are made with regard to prevention.

Free gas in the peritoneal cavity: the final hazard of diathermy.

Fires and explosions in the operating theatre are rare events, but are devastating in terms of structural damage to the equipment in theatres and to human lives. Fuel, oxygen, and source of ignition are the three factors causing explosion. Explosion during emergency laparotomy for perforated bowel has not been reported in the literature. In the case reported here, fuel in the form of free gas c...

Short-Wave Diathermy

A good estimate of the value and interest of this book would be for one to attempt to review the large volume of literature on the subject of the development and uses of shortwave diathermy, which the author has studiously done. He has gleaned the rapidly accumulating published work of the past decade, previous to which little or nothing was written on the subject. An extensive bibliography is ...

Diathermy in Pneumonia