Introduction Inhalation injury (ini) makes burn disease more severe. However, it remains unexplored what is the minimum area of that can significantly aggravate course ini. The objective was to compare incidence acute respiratory failure (arf), pneumonia, and mortality between patients with ini superficial skin burns up 3% total body surface (tbsa). Material methods 125 i–ii degree tbsa were al...

This is a retrospective review of 110 patients admitted to the Burns Units between October 1999 and November 2001. The aim was to determine the burns pattern of patients admitted to hospital UKM. There was an increasing trend for patients admitted. Female to male ratio was 1:2. Children consisted 34% of the total admission. Children had significant higher number of scald burns as compare to adu...

TOPIC: Pediatrics TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Bronchiectasis is often considered to involve irreversible airway damage. We present a patient who developed significant bronchiectasis after smoke inhalation, with near complete resolution few months later. CASE PRESENTATION: An eight-year-old female presented she sustained injuries in trailer fire. She was intubated due facial burns, a...

BACKGROUND None of the available mortality predicting models in pediatric burns precisely predicts outcomes in every population. Mortality rates as well as their risk factors vary with regions and among different centers within the regions. The aim of this study was to identify socio-demographic and clinical risk factors for mortality in pediatric burns in an effort to decrease the mortality in...

Burns make a significant contribution to paediatric hospital admissions; in 1 year, around 50,000 such patients attended accident and emergency departments and of these approximately 6400 attend a burns unit. Most burns occur at home, usually in the kitchen and bathroom. The aetiology changes with age; younger children suffer more scalds, older children more flame burns. Outwardly, burns treatm...

Dear Editor, Gasoline burn is one of the major causes of thermal burns even in the developed countries. Lack of understanding on explosive nature of gasoline has resulted into its inappropriate and unsafe use. In order to determine the frequency and outcomes of gasoline burns in our center in Tehran, Iran, we reviewed the hospital records of all acute gasoline burns during the last year. Patien...

Inhalation injury greatly increases the incidence of respiratory failure and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. It is also the cause of most early deaths in burn victims. The aim of our research was to study the incidence, early diagnosis, complications, and management of inhalation injury and to discuss the relation between inhalation injury and death in burn patients.This study included...

Inhalation injury greatly increases the incidence of respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome. It is also the cause of most early deaths in burn victims. The aim of this research is to study the incidence, early diagnosis, complications, and management of inhalation injury and to discuss the relationship between inhalation injury and death in burn patients. The study included...

OBJECTIVE To study the demographic and clinical factors associated with burn septicaemia patients in Kuwait. MATERIALS AND METHODS All burn in-patients, who developed septicaemia at the Burns Unit, Al-Babtain Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, Kuwait, during a 9-year period (June 1992 to May 2001) were included in the study. The data were recorded for age, sex, nationality, cause and perce...