AIM This retrospective study evaluated the epidemiology of burn injuries, due to paint thinner ignition, in patients treated at the burn units of a university hospital network. METHODS From 1997 to 2005, 28 patients with thermal burns caused by ignition of paint thinner were admitted to our burn units. Age, sex, etiologic factors, extent and localization of burns, length of hospitalization, o...

abstract background: many people suffer from burn injuries every year, and burns make the patients undergo surgeries and years of rehabilitation. burns lead to more years of disability, compared to cancer or heart diseases. epidemiologic studies are needed to reveal the span, impact, and related factors of burns to help take appropriate efforts to reduce its mortality and morbidity. materials a...

OBJECTIVE Inhalation injury is suspected in patients with facial and neck burn-injuries and in patients who suffered burns in an enclosed space. Inhalation injury is associated with a disappointingly high morbidity and mortality in spite of advances in diagnostics and therapy.Prophylactic antibiotic therapy in patients with diagnosed inhalation injury is still a controversial subject.The epidem...

This report describes and evaluates four patients with hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Pseudomonas infections at the Burns and Plastic Surgery Hospital, in Libya, between August 1999 and August 2002. Neither rifampicin nor vancomycin was used to treat these patients. Inhalation injury with major burns (> 60% total body surface area), a major degree of bu...

Introduction Out patient care of burns is appropriate for patients with small partial thickness burns who also have a supportive home environment. The cosmetic outcome of most small second degree burns if healed in 2 weeks time is good. In general, children with less than 10% BSA (body surface area) partial thickness burns and adults with less than 15% BSA partial thickness burns can usually be...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some of strategies chosen to contain spread, such as social isolation and use alcohol-based hand sanitizer, were suspected increase risk domestic accidents, especially burns. The aim this study was, therefore, investigate possible differences in epidemiological trends among burned patients admitted main referral hospital State Minas Gerais, Brazil, before during pa...

BACKGROUND Inhalation injury has high mortality and carries a significant risk of permanent pulmonary dysfunction. Inhalation injury and its consequences impose difficulties for the respiratory therapists, nurses and doctors who play a central role in its clinical management. In this study, we aimed to report our clinical experience and the role of non-invasive mechanic ventilatory (NIMV) suppo...

Abstract Background Inhalation lung injury occurs in almost one-third of all serious burns and is responsible for a considerable proportion burn patient fatalities each year. History closed space fire or unconsciousness at the accident site, occurrence pharyngeal facial burns, hoarseness, wheezing, laboratory tests that include blood gas abnormalities Carboxyhemoglobin levels ˃ 10% are used to ...