OBJECTIVE Burn wound depth is a significant determinant of patient treatment and morbidity. While superficial partial-thickness burns generally heal by re-epithelialization with minimal scarring, deeper wounds can form hypertrophic or contracted scars, often requiring surgical excision and grafting to prevent a suboptimal result. In addition, without timely intervention, more superficial burn w...

INTRODUCTION Burn injuries are a serious public health problem. In our study we have identified different epidemiological factors based on 10 years of our experience at a burn unit in central India and recommend some strategies to prevent burn injuries. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective analysis (2001-2010) of database from burn unit of S.S. Medical College, Rewa, India. RESULTS...

The abatement of the pollutants deriving from diesel engines in vehicle sector still represents an interesting scientific and technological challenge due to increasingly limiting regulations. Meeting stringent limits NOx soot emissions requires a catalytic system with great complexity, size units, number as well increased fuel consumption. Thus, after-treatment device for use integrated catalys...

Ammonia, as a zero-carbon fuel, is drawing more and attention. The major challenge of using ammonia fuel for the combustion engines lies in its low chemical reactivity, therefore fundamental researches on characteristics are required to explore effective ways burn engines. In this study, laminar burning premixed ammonia/hydrogen/air mixtures investigated. experiment, laser ignition was used ach...

Reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions has become one of the primary tasks for shipping industry over past few years. Among alternative marine fuels, liquefied natural (LNG) is regarded as most popular fuels because it cleanest fossil fuels. Therefore, a practical way to implement green deploy dual-fuel ships that can burn conventional fuel oil LNG on various ship routes. However, ...

Optimal care of the burn patient requires not only specialized equipment but also, more importantly, a team of dedicated surgeons, nurses, therapists, nutritionists, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists, and operating room staff. Burn care was one of the fi rst specialties to adopt a multidisciplinary approach, and over the past 30 years, burn centers have decreased burn mortality by coor...

OBJECTIVE Metabolic derangements, including insulin resistance and hyperlactatemia, are a major complication of major trauma (e.g., burn injury) and affect the prognosis of burn patients. Protein farnesylation, a posttranslational lipid modification of cysteine residues, has been emerging as a potential component of inflammatory response in sepsis. However, farnesylation has not yet been studie...

Quality is generally recognized to have three components: structure, process, and outcomes. The American Burn Association (ABA) has a long history of trying to improve quality of care for patients with burn injuries. Since its establishment by Dr. Irving Feller in the 1970s,1 the National Burn Information Exchange, a nascent database relying on punch cards submitted by participating burn center...

The gastrointestinal microbiome is crucial in human health. With greater than 10 times the cell count of an individual, the gastrointestinal microbiome provides many benefits to the host. It plays an important role in chronic illnesses and immune diseases and also following burns and trauma. This study aimed to determine whether severe burns affect the gastrointestinal microbiome during the ear...

The present study examined the hypothesis that hypertonic saline dextran (HSD), given after an initial insult, attenuates exaggerated inflammation that occurs with a second insult. Adult rats (n = 15 per group) were divided into groups 1 (sham burn), 2 [40% total body surface area burn + 4 ml/kg isotonic saline (IS) + 4 ml.kg(-1).% burn(-1) lactated Ringer solution (LR)], and 3 (burn + 4 ml/kg ...