In our country, about 100,000 150,000 burn patients seek medical attention annually, with about 6% of them admitted to burn hospitals. Mortality of burn patients in our country is about 10%.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Burn mortality depends on the treating centre and severity of the burn. In developed countries, about 1% of patients in Emergency Departments are admitted due to burns. Mortality rates are a...

I have always considered the burn-as-disease to be the spearhead of the plastic surgeon’s cultural heritage. Over the course of my 50 years of medical practice I was able to follow the progress in this field close up, and increasingly appreciate the immense contribution that its basic concepts and their development over time have provided to the body of biomedical knowledge. Observations, insig...

Burn injury also known as combustion injury is an impairment of the tissue, which is caused by extreme heat, electricity, chemicals, friction or radiation. Concerning children, in Hungary and worldwide the most affected age group is below the age of 5 years.1 The most common cause of burn injury in children is scald from hot water. The severity of burns is influenced by several factors. The mec...

Though burns are common among children, there is scarcity of published literature regarding neonatal burn injuries in particular. There are only a few published studies on neonatal burns. The injury mechanisms reported include household accidents in developing societies and iatrogenic injuries in developed countries. The exact incidence of neonatal burns is unknown, however in South Africa thes...

Immunosuppressant drugs adversely influence the woundhealing process by interacting with some of the inflammatory mediators.1 Thus, immunosuppressive therapy may seriously aggravate the clinical course of a burned patient. Most importantly, it predisposes them to infection and by impairing wound healing complicates permanent wound coverage.1 We hereby present the successful treatment of a liver...

Burn injury is traditionally referred to as a common triggering cause of acute coagulopathy, ranging from subclinical activation of coagulation to fulminant overt Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC). Coagulopathy associated with burn injury was well recognized as early as the 1970s.1,2 Coagulopathy in burn patients is considered to be driven by an endothelial injury, release of tissue ...

Electrical injury due to high-voltage contact (>1000 V) is one of the most challenging problems in emergency medicine and plastic surgery.1 High voltage electrical injury (HVEI) is one of the most important etiologic factors in the disruption of vascular systems and/or extremity amputations. Conversion of high voltage electrical energy into heat causes irreversible damage to different tissue ty...