نتایج جستجو برای: burn care
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The impact of the work that we do daily, what the value of these efforts will be to those who follow us, and what the challenges will be to providing high-quality burn care are issues that we must understand if we are to build to the future. As a society, we can look to our past to gain important insights about what the future may hold and the problems we will encounter. The past also allows us...
OBJECTIVES In select burn intensive care units, high-frequency percussive ventilation is preferentially used to provide mechanical ventilation in support of patients with acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and inhalation injury. However, we found an absence of prospective studies comparing high-frequency percussive ventilation with contemporary low-tidal volume ventilation ...
conclusions non-albicans candida should be considered as significant pathogens in burned patients with candidemia. results twenty-seven samples (6.7%) of the blood cultures from 13 patients (12%) were positive for candida species. candida parapsilosis (38%) and c. tropicalis (38%) were the most commonly found candida species, followed by c. albicans (15%) and c. guilliermondii (15%) in the pati...
OBJECTIVE Several formulas have been developed to guide resuscitation in severely burned patients during the initial 48 hrs after injury. These approaches require manual titration of fluid that may result in human error during this process and lead to suboptimal outcomes. The goal of this study was to analyze the efficacy of a computerized open-loop decision support system for burn resuscitatio...
Thermal injury is a sad but common and obligatory component of armed conflicts. Although the frequency of noncombat burns has decreased, overall incidence of burns in current military operations has nearly doubled during the past few years. Burn injuries in the military environment do not need to be hostile in nature. Burns resulting from carelessness outnumber those resulting from hostile acti...
Infection is a significant challenge in burn care, particularly for those patients who have major burn injuries. This article aims to review the literature and establish best practice in prevention and treatment of infection in patients with major burns. The article considers the causes and clinical features of wound infection, and examines systemic and local methods of prevention and treatment.
OBJECTIVE To validate the use of photographic burn wound assessment in evaluation of burn size and wound characteristics. METHODS Feasibility study of agreement between methods of measurement of burn size and characteristics, in patients admitted to the burn unit at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), Malawi, over two months in 2011. Burn wounds were photographed and assessed clinically, concurren...
RATIONALE Occupational burn injuries can be detrimental and difficult to manage. The majority of complex cases are referred and managed at regional burn centers where access to specialized care is available. As an alternative to hospitalization with staged surgical procedures, placental products may be used for outpatient medical management of these common burn injuries, especially if access to...
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