Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of healthcare associated infection especially in patients admitted to critical care units such as intensive care units (ICUs) and burn care centers (Moazami-Goudarzi et al., 2012) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a non-fermentative gram negative bacterium, is widely distributed in nature, including hospital environment. P. aeruginosa is a ubiquitous micro-organi...

Review of the records of 678 children with acute injuries referred during an eight-year period to this burn unit indicated that flame burns from a single ignition source (50%) outranked scalds (27%) or house fires (12%) as causes of injury. There was no temporal trend in the rank pattern. The majority of these single-source flame injuries were severe and involved ignition of the child's clothin...

The management of blast-related burn injuries is complex due to the nature of the mechanism involved. Most studies have been conducted in the Middle East, where patients were victims of war or terror attacks. These patients were managed mostly in a military medical setting, better equipped with a protocol-driven philosophy to cope with polytrauma and concurrent burns.1,2 There is limited Englis...

Burns complicate 5% to 10% of combat associated injuries with infections being the leading cause of mortality. Given the long term complications and rehabilitation needs after initial recovery from the acute burns, these patients are often cared for in dedicated burn units such as the Department of Defense referral burn center at the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research in San Anto...

background metallo-beta-lactamase (mbl) producing pseudomonas aeruginosa in the burn patients is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and remains a serious health concern among the clinicians. objectives the aim of this study was to detect mbl-producing p. aeruginosa in burn patients and determine multidrug-resistant (mdr) strains, and respective resistance patterns. patients and methods ...

Mass burns casualty disasters occur rarely, but they are difficult to manage. Management of these cases are often further complicated in poorly resourced settings found in the developing world as triage decisions often have to be made early. This case report discusses ethical dilemmas that have been encountered when treating a mass burns casualty’s incident in the setting of a regional burns un...

A burn patient was infected with Acinetobacter baumannii on transfer to the hospital after a terrorist attack. Two patients experienced cross-infection. Environmental swab samples were negative for A. baumannii. Six months later, the bacteria reemerged in 6 patients. Environmental swab samples obtained at this time were inoculated into a minimal mineral broth, and culture results showed widespr...

Methods A case record audit was conducted at Government Kilpauk Medical College having two burn units; one at the Kilpauk medical college Hospital and the other at Government Royapettah Hospital. Emergency department registers, burn center registers and case sheets of patients with burns who attended the Emergency Department, from January 2013 to December 2013 were studied. The adherence to nat...

Burn-in (BI) for programmed Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a growing concern in the space community. This application note addresses these concerns with regard to the Actel RT54SX-S and SX-A FPGA device families in an unprogrammed versus a programmed mode. This application note discusses the main differences between the architecture of the RT54SX-S and SX-A families and it describes ...

The epidemiological pattern and risk factors of burns and burn infections varies widely in different parts of the world. This study aims to determine the epidemiologic pattern of burn injuries and possible risk factors associated with burn infections in burn units of Gaza strip hospitals. A total of 118 patients were included in the study. The data collected included: patient age and gender, th...