A prospective study of fungal and bacterial flora of burn wounds was carried out from February 2004 to February 2005 at the Burns Unit of Hospital Regional da Asa Norte, Brasília, Brazil. During the period of the study, 203 patients were treated at the Burns Unit. Wound swab cultures were assessed at weekly intervals for four weeks. Three hundred and fifty four sampling procedures (surface swab...

mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection that can implicate cranial sinuses, brain, lungs, gastrointestinal tract and skin. although it can occur in patients with competent and incompetent immunity such as patients with diabetes mellitus, lymphoma, leukemia and burns, but it has an aggressive, malignant and lethal course in patients with incompetent immunity. to enforce the importa...

background burn is still one of the most devastating injuries in emergency medicine while improvements in wound healing knowledge and technology have resulted into development of new dressings. this study was undertaken to evaluate the healing effect of licorice in pseudomonas aeruginosa infected burn wounds of experimental rat model. methods one hundred and twenty female sprague-dawley rats we...

The response to major burn injury includes systemic release of mediators that may have an effect on wound healing. The authors evaluated the effect of a burn injury on the contraction of an excisional wound adjacent to the burn, and the effect of plasma derived from burn-injured animals on the contraction of the fibroblast-populated collagen matrix (FPCM). Nine rats (90-100 days old) under anes...

BACKGROUND The colonization of burn wounds by Pseudomonas aeruginosa can lead to septic shock, organ injuries, and high mortality rates. We hypothesized that negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) would decrease invasion and proliferation of P. aeruginosa within the burn wound and reduce mortality. METHODS Thermal injuries were induced in anesthetized mice, and P. aeruginosa was applied to th...

objective(s): the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of quercus brantii galls extract on the rat skin burn wound healing. materials and methods: ethanol extract of the galls of q. brantii was used to treat the induced burn wounds on the back of 32 wistar rats divided into 4 groups. the groups were treated by placebo, 1%, 2% and 4% concentration gall extract gels for 14 days and...

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 hands were selected for...

early wound excision and grafting of burn wounds is regarded not only as the method of choice in speeding up the healing process in deep burns, but also limits contracture and infection, on the other hand, smoking has generally been implicated in the delay of the healing process in a variety of surgical procedures, in this study we report the outcome of a cross-sectional study of all the 395 me...