BACKGROUND As the versatility and variability of free flaps have significantly increased during recent years, so have the indications for free tissue transplantation in burn reconstruction expanded. METHODS The authors report retrospectively the results of 42 free flaps for upper extremity reconstruction in 35 severely burned patients using 13 different free flaps. This experience enabled the...

A burn injury is one of the most severe forms of trauma that can be sustained (National Burn Care Review Committee Report [NBCR], 2001). Burns and scalds can have a wide variety of causes such as thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical or radiation, but all will involve coagulative destruction of the skin (Rawlins, 2011). About 250,000 people sustain burn injuries in the UK every year; 175,00...

We report on the experimental realization of large fractional pulse delays in a hot, Doppler-broadened rubidium vapor. A pump laser burns a deep spectral hole in the inhomogeneously broadened vapor. The delay is shown to be widely tunable by both power broadening the resonance and frequency modulating the pump laser. The simplicity of the scheme opens up the possibility for practical optical de...

  Background: Electrical injury is daily compromise of our life and upper and lower extremities   are common sites of injury .   Case Presentation: A 23 years old man who had suffered high voltage electrical injury referred   to our center. He had severe left upper extremity burn and suffered from head and thoracic   injuries due to falling down from high altitude.   Treatment: Fasciotomy of th...

DESCRIPTION A 57-year-old gentleman sustained third-degree burns to his right arm and left leg following a high-voltage electrical injury. On hospital day 23, he reported an acute onset of sharp, right-sided chest pain exacerbated during inspiration. On examination, he was tachypneic.

UNLABELLED Victims of electrical burns account for approximately 5% of admissions to major burn centers. The first case of visceral injury caused by electrical burns was described in 1927 by Simonin, who reported perforation of the small intestine. Other rare cases were reported over the following years. The colon and small intestine were the organs most frequently affected. Less frequently inv...

Environmental electrical injuries (electrical burns and lightning) are relatively common and are estimated to result in more than 3,000 admissions to specialized burn units each year here in the US. Lightning injuries are a small subset of electrical injuries and are responsible for an average of 300 injuries and 100 deaths per year in the US. We present a case of a rare injury obtained as a re...

Background: Burn is an injury caused by biological, chemical, electrical and physical agents with local systemic repercussions. It one of the most significant health problems throughout world, leading to prolonged hospitalization hence increased expense for patients, their families society. Today, prognosis patients burn dependent, apart from adequate treatment, upon health-care system professi...

Among burn injuries, electrical injuries constitute a small but devastating fraction. To describe the epidemiology of electrical injuries in Canadian children, data on deaths and emergency department visits related to electrical injuries, including lightning strikes, were obtained from provincial coroners' offices and the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) respe...

Patients surviving high-voltage electrical injury may have early and delayed sequelae. The most apparent neurological complications are known to be cerebral injury, spinal cord lesions, peripheral-nerve injuries and motor neuropathies. In this study, clonus, which is an unusual late neurological sequela in an electrical burn patient and presented as series of rhythmic, monophasic contractions a...