Wildfire continues to be a major environmental problem in the world. To help land and fire management agencies manage mitigate wildfire-related risks, we need develop tools for mapping those risks. Big geodata—in form of remotely sensed images, ground-based sensor observations, topographical datasets—can us characterize dynamics wildfire related events. In this study, design deep fully convolut...

Burn injuries and their treatment is an important medical social problem. Compartment syndrome a serious complication of deep circular burns, which causes increased subfascial pressure local tissue ischemia with the development intercellular interstitial edema significant rise intra−tissue pressure, exacerbates blood supply, enhancing hypoxicity. Treatment performed by necrotomy, due to decompr...

M oday, Sptem er 6, 2016 ConCluSionS: Xenografting appears to be a reasonable option for patients with partial-thickness scald injuries. The cost, LOS, HAIs, and ICU days for the Xenografting cohort fell in-between the Non-Op and Autografting cohorts, as would be expected. While non-operative management may be appropriate for small/superficial burns, and Autografting may be required for large/d...

BACKGROUND Silver sulfadiazine (SSD) has been the standard topical antimicrobial for burn wounds for decades. Recently, nanometer-sized silver particles are available which have high surface to volume ratio and remain effective even at a very low concentration and minimizes the chance for tissue toxicity due to silver. Hence, we conducted a randomized controlled trial to compare the effectivene...

M oday, Sptem er 6, 2016 ConCluSionS: Xenografting appears to be a reasonable option for patients with partial-thickness scald injuries. The cost, LOS, HAIs, and ICU days for the Xenografting cohort fell in-between the Non-Op and Autografting cohorts, as would be expected. While non-operative management may be appropriate for small/superficial burns, and Autografting may be required for large/d...

Autologous skin-grafting is the gold standard for treatment of deep second and third degree burns. Available bioengineered skin products also necessitate this two-step surgical procedure. Therefore, we developed fetal skin constructs to improve healing of such degree burns. A bank of fetal skin cells was developed from one organ donation (4 cm2 of skin allowing the preparation of several millio...