This document is the final report on the burns diagnosis studies conducted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The studies utilized image processing technology developed for use in planetary, lunar, and earth surface analysis. The work was conducted with the cooperation of the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center...

A 33-year-old woman suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and was found un-responsive lying on an asphalt parking lot surface. Bystander and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) personnel provided Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). However, the victim sustained deep second degree burns on her right upper arm and right forearm. Safety guidelines for victims and rescuers do not address the poss...

Fabric-based protective clothing is widely used for occupational safety of firefighters/industrial workers. The aim of this paper is to study thermal protective performance provided by fabric systems and to propose an effective model for predicting the thermal protective performance under various thermal exposures. Different fabric systems that are commonly used to manufacture thermal protectiv...

Burns remain a major public health problem all over the world, especially in developing countries. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major cause of infection and a contributing factor in the death of patients with burns. So, there is a growing need to develop drugs which will prevent infections and complications more effectively than the presently used drugs. Ocimum sanctum L. (Holy basil in English ...

Burn treatment is an area of major importance in medicine, however, there is not currently an analytic method to determine the depth and magnitude of burns. Complications, such as a relative lack of knowledge of the specific thermal properties of skin and the relation between heat transfer and biological processes, have prevented a comprehensive model to explain the field of bioheat transfer. R...

chemical injuries of the cornea are ophthalmic emergencies. these injuries often result in significant ocular morbidity and generally strike young adults in the prime years of life. classification schemes enable the ophthalmologist to determine the severity of injury and the prognosis for the injured eye. immediate management consists of copious irrigation following exposure. effective manageme...

Today, patients aged 15–44 years have at least a 50% chance of surviving a 70% total body surface area (TBSA) burn when treated in a specialist burns unit. Burns comprise up to 30% of combat injuries, depending on the nature of the conflict. However, a significant proportion — up to half — of burn injuries sustained by military personnel may not be combat-related, and are amenable to preventive...

Almost one-third of all burn centre admissions involve children under the age of ten years. Caring for the burned child continues to demand the close attention of a multidisciplinary team to the patient's many needs. Paediatric burns impose enormous economic burdens on families and on society as a whole. Scald burns secondary to household accidents predominate in most series, constituting 70% o...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the long-term outcome of the "pocket flap-graft" technique, used to cover acute deep burns of the dorsum of the hand, and analyzed surgical alternatives. METHODS This was a 6-year, retrospective study of 8 patients with extensive burns and 1 patient with a single burn (11 hands in all) treated by defatted abdominal wall pockets. We studied the medical records of the pat...