Burns are considered one of the most common and shocking forms of trauma. Patients with serious thermal or electrical injury necessitate immediate specialized care to minimize morbidity and mortality. Electrical burns and burn injuries caused by fire, hot liquids, and contact with hot surfaces, have been recognized as a significant and major public health problem in most developing countries. B...

The management of patients suffering from burn injury poses unique challenges for the reconstructive surgeon, both in the acute and delayed settings. Once resuscitative measures are optimized and hemodynamic stability is achieved, early burn debridement and coverage is performed. Traditionally, this consists of excision of devitalized tissue and subsequent coverage using split thickness skin gr...

Objective: Geriatric patients represent a separate group in the treatment of burn injury regarding pathogenesis, pathophysiology and therapeutic procedure. Methods: From 2000 to 2010 on our burn unit 53 patients aged over 60 years were treated. The mean age of the 27 women and 26 men was 76 years (60 102 years), with an average of 33.2% of total burn surface area. 25 patients (47.2%) had severe...

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...

OBJECTIVE To investigate differences in the characteristics of burn injuries leading to hospitalisation of Indigenous Australian and non-Indigenous children in New South Wales.Design, setting: Population-based cohort analysis of linked hospital and mortality data for 2000-2014. PARTICIPANTS 35 749 Indigenous and 1 088 938 non-Indigenous children aged 0-13 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The ex...

Burns from domestic irons are potentially preventable injuries which can result in significant morbidity. Several studies have reported these injuries in children but there are no reports to date in adults. Epidemiology, management and outcome of these injuries is described, and possible preventative strategies are discussed. We present a retrospective case note review of 50 adult and paediatri...

This study describes the epidemiology and patterns of moderate to severe burn injuries (%BSA>or=20-90) treated at the Italian Red Cross Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, during the medical mission of the tenth Italian Red Cross Contingent, from 3 April to 19 May 2004. Burn injuries sustained by members of the civilian population admitted to the Burns Unit, irrespective of age and sex, are analysed (n=...

BACKGROUND Management of firework-related injuries is costly for the patient, society, and government. OBJECTIVES Evaluating effective factors yielding to such injuries may lead to better management of patients and decreased costs and morbidities. PATIENTS AND MATERIALS This retrospective cross-sectional study was performed on burn patients referred to Shahid Motahari Burns Hospital on Char...

Intentional burns represent a serious form of physical abuse that must be identified to protect children from further harm. This study is a retrospectively planned secondary analysis of the Examining Siblings To Recognize Abuse (ExSTRA) network data. Our objective was to describe the characteristics of burns injuries in children referred to Child Abuse Pediatricians (CAPs) in relation to the pe...