The full scope of hand-burn treatment can be challenging, even for a skilled surgeon. Specifically, pediatric palmar contact burns, a common injury in young children,1 are currently becoming a widely-discussed topic due to their increasing incidence. The risk is increasing, especially in early childhood when the hand is a tool for interacting with the environment. Combined with the child’s inhe...

Deep burns lead to scarring and contractures for which there is little or no published data on treatment costs. The purpose of this study was to fill this gap by analysing treatment costs for burn sequelae. To do this, German-DRG for in-patient treatment was collected from the Burn Centre Lower Saxony. DRG-related T95.-coding served as a tool for burn-associated sequelae. Data on scar occurrenc...

Acinetobacter baumanii has emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen within the hospital environment, being able to colonize and produce infections in ventilator associated pneumonia, secondary meningitis, urinary tract, septicaemia and other conditions in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. It is also causing infections in other immunocompromised patients, including burns patients. Antimi...

In 1983 Engrav et al.1 described the efficacy of early excision of burns and immediate autografting compared with the widely-used conservative management plan for burns used at the time. Since then, most centres in the western world have been following these principles, but with somewhat different approaches. The use of xenografts was introduced in parallel with early excision of burns. We are ...

OBJECTIVE When the dimensional measurements of the students who spend most of their time at school are taken into consideration, inappropriate dimensions of school equipment may affect their body and psychological improvements negatively. Anthropometric measurements are necessary for designing the educational equipment of the children at school. It is emphasized that anthropometric measurements...