Occupational reintegration after severe burn injury: a questionnaire study

Reintegration after severe brain injury: a retrospective study.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE The evaluation of school and work reintegration of patients following severe brain injury and of the relationship between the most common (early and late) prognostic indicators and reintegration itself. RESEARCH DESIGN A retrospective study on a population of 353 patients consecutively admitted to an intensive rehabilitation unit (S. Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Italy) from 1991-...

Perceived Physical and Psychological Outcome After Severe Burn Injury

0041. The effect of low-dose hydrocortisone after severe burn injury: a microarray longitudinal study

Introduction The systemic effect of inflammatory mediators release after severe burn is a severe cardiovascular dysfunction called burn shock. Patients need vasopressor infusion to maintain adequate delivery of oxygen but it could have deleterious effects on skin perfusion and worsen the burn depth. This shock could result from the interplay of the initial hypovolemia and the release of multipl...

Plasma chromogranin A after severe burn trauma

BACKGROUND Chromogranin A (CgA) in plasma (P-CgA), a neuroendocrine marker of sympathetic stress, has been shown to predict mortality in medical intensive care. We hypothesized that the magnitude of CgA release would reflect stress load, and thereby injury severity in burn intensive care patients. METHODS Fifty-one consecutive patients with a burn area exceeding 10% were included. P-CgA was m...

Eruptive nevi after burn injury

Eruptive melanocytic nevi (EMN) is an unusual phenomenon characterized by the abrupt development of multiple melanocytic nevi over weeks to months in association with an underlying trigger. The underlying mechanisms are not fully understood, however, they have been associated with a variety of conditions. EMN is relatively uncommon and might be underreported due to the absence of close monitori...