the culture results of 203 cases with different wounds were studies 150 of the latter were burn cases (mainly second and third degree burns), and 53 were of other types (surgical, traumatic, ect). four subtypes of bacillus cereus were isolated upon culture, and the different toxins produced in dht broth with 0.1% glucose were assessed. the lethal toxin was injected intravenously to syrian rats,...

A 2-year-and-4-month-old girl suffered a burn to the neck due to boiling water. She was examined at another hospital, and recommended to undergo dermatoplasty. Thirteen days after injury, she consulted our hospital. A wide skin defect was observed around the neck, and a third-degree burn was diagnosed. Conservative treatment using electrolyticreduction ion water (ERI) lotion, antibiotics/steroi...

High-mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1), a ubiquitous nuclear protein, drives proinflammatory responses when released extracellularly. It plays a key role as a distal mediator in the development of acute lung injury (ALI). Sodium butyrate, an inhibitor of histone deacetylase, has been demonstrated to inhibit HMGB1 expression. This study investigates the effect of sodium butyrate on burn-induc...

Figure 1. Burn wound on post-operative day three after resurfacing with allograft. DESCRIPTION A 54-year-old man sustained third-degree burns to 50% total body surface area. He was transferred to our facility in septic shock on day five after injury. Broad-spectrum antibiotics, burn excision, and resurfacing with allograft were initiated. Two weeks later, a new wound infection was identified (F...

The effect of Betadine solution and cream was examined in the treatment of burn patients (23 documented and about 200 non-documented) during the first six months of 1991. The laboratory examinations did not reveal changes in T3, T4, TSH values. Renal failure due to iodine absorption was not observed. Hypersensitivity to the agent was not recorded. Healing of superficial and deep second-degree b...