Superficial cutaneous burns following lightning strike may vary in patterns ranging from linear burns, punctate burns, feathering burns, and thermal burns. Contact with an extrinsic object in the pathway of lightning current can lead to disastrous consequences. The lucky who survive may show bizarre and interesting burn patterns to tell their story.

burns are injuries which may require long hospitalization and may result in important impairment and disability. burn injuries are still common especially in developing countries. assessment of the epidemiology of burns is very important for introduction of preventive methods. this study was conducted in yazd to assess and describe the epidemiology of burns including its main causes, and its de...

The authors present an extensive review of burn epidemiology. They review sources of burns, preventive tools, emergency behaviors to reduce severity, and rehabilitation. Ways are sketched in which the pediatrician can be an effective advocate against burn injuries.

INTRODUCrION Trauma is the commonest cause of eye disease. In the five years up to August 1969, 376 perforating eye injuries were treated in the Eye & Ear Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, the main causes being accidents and play in children, and road traffic accidents in adults. Only twenty-one were due to assault, usually with the list or broken glass, one was due to a butt with the head and o...

PURPOSE This study evaluated the efficacy of 50% autologous serum eye drops in ocular surface diseases not improved by conventional therapy. METHODS We analyzed two groups: (1) acute eye pathologies (e.g., chemical burns) and (2) chronic eye pathologies (e.g., recurrent corneal erosion, neurotropic keratitis, and keratoconjunctivitis sicca). The patients were treated for surface instability a...

are guided and controlled by some outside power, whether this power be God, an electric machine, a malicious enemy or a hypnotist makes no intrinsic difference; (2) The feeling of the unreality of the external world, objective experience; and (3) The feeling of the unreality of one's self, subjective experience. Before attempting an analysis, I shall briefly describe a number of cases, which pr...

ALTHOUGH for many years it has been recognized that relationships exist between the chemical structures of certain compounds and their pharmacological properties, those interdependencies1 which have been observed have served more to correlate existing data in many isolated sectors of the field of drug action than to serve as guideposts on the road of medicine and research ahead. Therefore it ha...

Burn injuries are an important global health problem. Most simple burns can be managed by general practitioners in primary care, but complex burns and all major burns warrant a specialist and skilled multidisciplinary approach for a successful clinical outcome. This article discusses the principles behind managing major burns and scalds using an evidence based approach andprovides a framework f...