Overview: Burn Injuries
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Burn and scald injuries.
Burns are one of the most harmful physical and psychological traumas. Infection is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in burns. Infections acquired from hospital or from the patient's own endogenous flora have a significant prevalence after burns. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are the most frequent colonizing agents whereas group A beta-haemolytic streptococci are the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Health Nursing
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0029-7933
DOI: 10.1177/216507998303100703