BACKGROUND Early cooling with 10 - 20 minutes of cool running water up to 3 hours after a burn has a direct impact on the depth of the burn and therefore on the clinical outcome of the injury. An assessment of the early cooling of burns is essential to improve this aspect of burns management. OBJECTIVES To assess the rates and adequacy of prehospital cooling received by patients with severe b...

the current study investigated the types of accidents and their effects among 0-14 year old children during the months of ordibehesht-mordad of 1990 in tabriz, iran. a total of 717 patients were randomly selected from the patients admitted at two hospitals. a questionnaire was used to interview the subjects or their family members present at the hospital. results indicated that automobile accid...

background advances in the care of burn injuries have resulted from the efforts of regional patient-based specialist teams at burn care centers. objectives we conducted this study to assess the four-year epidemiology of burn injuries in rasht, iran. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study, medical records of 2274 burn patients, treated at velayat hospital from january 2007 to decemb...

superficial siderosis (ss) is a rare disease which affects people in all ages and both sexes, but three times more in men. pathological etiology is deposition of hemosiderin (a product of the breakdown of blood) in leptomeninges, subpial layer, ependymal surface and other parts of central nervous system (cns) and typically leads to neurological dysfunction and progressive irreversible signs and...

Porcine thermal burns have been widely employed for examining the beneficial effects of novel burn treatments prior to clinical application and for understanding the mechanisms of burn wound healing 1, 2. The advantages of these porcine burns over other animal burns are well described by others, such as the well described close resemblance to human skin in structure and in wound healing. Import...

BACKGROUND European studies of paediatric foot burns report scalds as the leading cause. Mechanisms of injury are different in warmer climates. We sought to characterize the mechanisms and outcomes of isolated foot burns in our population. METHODS Retrospective review of a prospectively collected database of all children aged 0-15 years presenting to a Queensland paediatric burns centre over ...

Aloe vera gel and cream has been traditionally used to heal burns. It is widely believed that aloe vera helps to treat all types of burns, and you will often see aloe vera gel being recommended and promoted as an ideal solution to treat sun burns. However, there are conflicting clinical evidence on the efficacy of aloe vera gels for treating various types of burns including sun burns. In our al...

This preclinical study aimed to evaluate the tissue repair process of burns treated with human amniotic membrane (hAM) patches in rats. Twenty-four rats were subjected superficial partial thickness, and randomly allocated into two groups: Control Treated Group, subdivided experimental periods 7th 14th days. The lesions evaluated by digitalized images (macroscopy) analysis histological sections ...

BACKGROUND Childhood burns are a global health problem. To date, no epidemiological study with a large sample size of hospitalized pediatric burn patients from the Chinese mainland has been conducted. This study retrospectively analyzed pediatric burn cases to identify the characteristics of pediatric burns and their risk factors in China. METHODS Data for pediatric burn inpatients younger th...