There is evidence that social support is important for the development and maintenance of body image satisfaction for people who have sustained burn injuries. This qualitative study explored the specific mechanisms by which social support impacts the body image satisfaction of burn survivors, drawing on nine participants' in depth accounts. Participants were recruited through a burns unit at a ...

Electrical burn injuries account for about 5% of burns unit admissions. Electricians and linesmen are at highest risk but those working with electrical tools also form a significant proportion of this patient group. [2] Electrical injuries in children are unusual and are mainly due to misguided exploration outside the home. [3] For every death, there are two serious injuries and 36 reported ele...

This survey analyses data from 17 French burn units with respect to age, severity of injury and survival of patients admitted to hospital during 1985. Of the 2398 patients treated, more than half were between 15 and 50 years old. About 90 per cent of the patients had burns covering less than 50 per cent of the body surface area. The overall mortality rate was 11.8 per cent. The LD50 for the 239...

BACKGROUND Burn victims experience immense physical and mental hardship during their process of rehabilitation and regaining functionality. We examined different objective burn-related factors as well as psychological ones, in the form of personality traits that may affect the rehabilitation process and its outcome. OBJECTIVE To assess the influence and correlation of specific personality tra...

Current advances in basic stem cell research and tissue engineering augur well for the development of improved cultured skin tissue substitutes: a class of products that is still fraught with limitations for clinical use. Although the ability to grow autologous keratinocytes in-vitro from a small skin biopsy into sheets of stratified epithelium (within 3 to 4 weeks) helped alleviate the problem...

The purpose of this systematic review and meta-review has shifted from assessing the consequences silver sulfadiazine with most different drugs (SSD) for burn recovery contamination prevention to novel dressings, without or silver. Burn units have be able better control sepsis. degree which a topical antibacterial agent is absorbed determines its effectiveness. Absorption may evaluated against ...

Infection control is very important in burn care units, because burn wound infection is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality among burn patients. Thus, the appropriate prescription of antibiotics can be helpful, but unreasonable prescription can have detrimental consequences, including greater expenses to patients and community alike. The aim of this study was to determine the effe...

Burns are a leading cause of non-natural death in South African infants and children. Conventional care of partial-thickness burns often requires painful, time consuming and costly twice-daily dressing changes to clean the wound and apply antimicrobial topical agents. A new topical nanocrystalline silver-coated NS dressing (Acticoat; Smith & Nephew) has been developed and is the first-line trea...

Burns due to hot beverages are a well known public health hazard, both at home [1] and in the work place [2]. Although, such injuries are often minor, they can be severely debilitating, and on certain occasions, fatal [3]. Burns due to hot liquids most commonly affect children [4] but in certain circumstances, the adult population is at risk. We believe these risks are reducible with increased ...

Trichosporon asahii is a ubiquitous fungus that has been isolated as part of human microbiota. There has been an emergence of this pathogen in recent years, causing superficial and deep seated infections. There are scarce reports of urinary tract infections in pediatric intensive care burn units caused by this agent. We describe the cases of 2 pediatric patients with prolonged hospitalization d...