UNLABELLED A chemical burn refers to irritation and destruction of human tissue caused by exposure to a chemical, usually by direct contact with the chemical or its fumes. The study investigated the trend and complications following chemical burns and their management. METHODS The study involved a retrospective review of Burns Registry at the Burns Intensive Care Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teac...

Evidence that glucose1 is the ultimate g-carbon precursor of ascorbic acid in the rat was first obtained by Jackel, Mosbach, Burns, and King (1). They administered uniformly labeled glucose-C** to Chloretone-treated rats and recovered uniformly labeled ascorbic acid from the urine. Subsequently, Horowitz, Doerschuk, and King (2) and Burns and Mosbach (3) discovered that when glucose-l-C14 was a...

BACKGROUND Burns present a devastating injury to patients. Burns caused by chemical agents, present a worse scenario. In a resource limited country like Nigeria, readily available sources of these corrosive agents are mainly from lead-acid battery vendors and to some extent local small scale soap manufacturers who use caustic soda. We hypothesized that with the reduction in small scale soap man...

INTRODUCTION Four employees at a chemical plant sustained extensive chemical burns following the explosion of a pipeline containing 100% sulphuric acid. We describe the management of these patients from the initial ED triage through to discharge from hospital in life and limb threatening chemical burns. METHODS Four patients who sustained chemical burns to the torso and extremities are review...

A retrospective analysis of 98 patients, less than 15 years of age, treated for caustic ingestion during 1976-1990 was performed to evaluate the modern consequences of caustic ingestion in children and to set indications for esophagoscopies and radiographic and laboratory examinations. Dishwasher detergents were ingested by 56 children. There were no lye ingestions, since lye has not been freel...

Staphylococcus aureus isolated between 1967 and 1975 from the nose and skin lesions of patients in dermatology wards and from the burns of patients in a burns unit in Birmingham showed a high incidence of multiple antibiotic-resistant strains in both environments. Over 20% of the strains isolated from patients on admission to the dermatology wards were multiresistant. Resistance to benzylpenici...