Hand burns predominantly affect young adults, and therefore have serious social and financial implications. In the present work, 106 patients with less than 25% body surface area burns and acute partial-thickness burned hands were managed using polyethylene bags and 1% local silver sulphadiazine (SSD) cream or moist exposed burn ointment (MEBO). Females made up 61.3% of the cases and flame burn...

AIM This retrospective study evaluated the epidemiology of burn injuries, due to paint thinner ignition, in patients treated at the burn units of a university hospital network. METHODS From 1997 to 2005, 28 patients with thermal burns caused by ignition of paint thinner were admitted to our burn units. Age, sex, etiologic factors, extent and localization of burns, length of hospitalization, o...

Introduction: Self-inflicted injuries have always attracted medicolegal experts. These are produced by a person on his own body for ulterior motives. Majority of such cases observed among adults dominated male gender. Such when young age group alarming and need to be explored. Excessive use social media, unresolved issues, large family size, lack education, conflict the leading causes rise in c...

BACKGROUND Burn first aid awareness has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality. We present a report on the knowledge and practices of the Saudi population with regard to burn first aid and the application of traditional remedies. METHODS An internet-based survey was conducted to assess the public's knowledge on first aid practices and home remedies applied for burn injuries among Saudi ...

Recent literature indicates that females are more resistant to shock-, trauma-, and sepsis-induced immune dysfunction and organ injury than are males. Consequently, using trauma-hemorrhagic shock (T/HS) and burn models, we tested whether the neutrophil response to trauma occurred in a sexually dimorphic fashion and, if so, the role of sex hormones. Neutrophil activation, as reflected by CD11b e...

      Aloe vera is a tropical plant belonging to the Liliaceae family. It has beneficialeffects in variety of diseases. The aim of this study was to formulate a topical cream from A. vera with wound burn healing effect and to perform its clinical trial. A total of 30 patients (20 males and 10 females in the age range of 20-50 years) with second degree burn wounds on their both...

BACKGROUND While burns take seconds to occur, injuries incurred result in pain and undesirable long term effects that might take a lifetime to overcome. The study was carried out to determine the measures of first aid delivered by caregivers after a burn injury and sources of the information. METHODS A cross- sectional study was carried out over a period of 3 months at two central hospitals i...

Burn therapies should focus on achieving outcomes that are most important to patients. The authors wanted to discover which outcomes newly burned patients would anticipate as most important to them and explored the association between demographic/burn characteristics and patient preferences. The authors surveyed 753 of 776 patients seen by our burn service from 2008 to 2013 during the initial e...

Abstract Introduction Self-harm rates in the UK are increasing. Healthcare professionals’ beliefs regarding repeat attendance; attention-seeking; and poor treatment compliance may contribute to patients’ stigma. Self-inflicted burns (SIB) constitute a minority of cases, but require disproportionate healthcare input, yet little is known about these patients. Our aim was evaluate presentations, o...

INTRODUCTION Keloids are abnormal growths of fibrous tissue often seen on dark skin. We studied their clinical, epidemiological and therapeutic aspects in 456 consecutive cases. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective study covering a 20-year period describes and analyzes all patients seen for keloids during that period. RESULTS The age range of 15-24 year-olds was affected most often (35.7...