Successful outcomes following hand burn injury require an understanding of the rehabilitation needs of the patient. Rehabilitation of hand burns begins on admission, and each patient requires a specific plan for range of motion and/or immobilization, functional activities, and modalities. The rehabilitation care plan typically evolves during the acute care period and during the months following...

W e augmentthe standard Crawford-Sobel(Econometrica 1 982) modelofcheap talkcommunication byallowingthe informed party tousebothcostlessandcostlymessages.Theissuesonwhichwefocus aretheconsequences forcheap talksignalingoftheoption tousea costlysignal(\ burnedmoney");thecircumstances underwhichboth cheap talkandburnedmoneyareusedtosignalinformation;andthe extenttowhichburningmoneyis thepreferred...

Severe burns lead to insulin resistance, which is associated with hyperglycemia and muscle wasting. Investigators showed relatively recently that control of hyperglycemia with intensive insulin treatment is associated with improved outcomes for those in the intensive care unit, including patients with severe burns. In this article, we review the actions of insulin in terms of glycemic control a...

Inventories of fire-derived (pyrogenic) C (PyC) stocks in soils remain incomplete for many parts of the world, yet are critical to reduce uncertainties in global PyC estimates. Additionally, PyC dynamics in soils remain poorly understood. For example, dissolved PyC (DPyC) fluxes from soil horizons, as well as the influence of historical fire events on these fluxes and soil PyC stocks remain poo...

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing systems, las and rhl, control the production of numerous virulence factors. In this study, we have used the burned-mouse model to examine the contribution of quorum-sensing systems to the pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa infections in burn wounds. Different quorum-sensing mutants of P. aeruginosa PAO1 that were defective in the lasR, lasI, or rhlI gene or ...

OF the problems associated with anaesthesia and surgical treatment in burned patients, some are the result of secondary biochemical changes or indiscriminate attempts to reverse such changes (Hutchins, McLaughlin & Hayes, 1961; Stoner, 1969, 1970). For example, one of the most constant, if least striking, early features of the metabolic response to injury-including burn injury and surgical trau...

Global estimation of burned area using MODIS active fire observations L. Giglio, G. R. van der Werf, J. T. Randerson, G. J. Collatz, and P. Kasibhatla Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Department of Hydrology and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Earth System Science, Universi...