Porcine thermal burns have been widely employed for examining the beneficial effects of novel burn treatments prior to clinical application and for understanding the mechanisms of burn wound healing 1, 2. The advantages of these porcine burns over other animal burns are well described by others, such as the well described close resemblance to human skin in structure and in wound healing. Import...

Resident Surgeon, Campbell Hospital, Calcutta An attempt is made in this article to compare the results of general and local treatment of major (Wallace, 1941) burns in the abovementioned years. By major burn is meant any burn that covers more than 1 per cent of the body surface or that covers any joint surface or that is too near any source of natural contamination, e.g. mouth, anus, etc. In 1...

BACKGROUND European studies of paediatric foot burns report scalds as the leading cause. Mechanisms of injury are different in warmer climates. We sought to characterize the mechanisms and outcomes of isolated foot burns in our population. METHODS Retrospective review of a prospectively collected database of all children aged 0-15 years presenting to a Queensland paediatric burns centre over ...

Aloe vera gel and cream has been traditionally used to heal burns. It is widely believed that aloe vera helps to treat all types of burns, and you will often see aloe vera gel being recommended and promoted as an ideal solution to treat sun burns. However, there are conflicting clinical evidence on the efficacy of aloe vera gels for treating various types of burns including sun burns. In our al...

introduction: complications of caustic ingestion swallowing in children of singe to gullet severe  stricture and andoscopic actions and multiple surgeries is different that increase the risk of gastrointestinal perforation and gastrointestinal malignancies ..... because acid substances have  bad taste and these are tissue coalescence in location of contact thus attribute alkali make lose of inj...

BACKGROUND Childhood burns are a global health problem. To date, no epidemiological study with a large sample size of hospitalized pediatric burn patients from the Chinese mainland has been conducted. This study retrospectively analyzed pediatric burn cases to identify the characteristics of pediatric burns and their risk factors in China. METHODS Data for pediatric burn inpatients younger th...