Xenograft and other biologic dressings have been an integral part of burn care for many years. Porcine graft is both inexpensive and, partial thickness burns, provides the additional benefit avoiding painful dressing changes when compared with topical agents. In this case, we discuss a patient suffering from deep burns whom xenograft was used initial wound coverage. This porcine became unexpect...

Diabetes mellitus with its resulting neurovascular changes may lead to an increased risk of burns and impaired wound healing. The purpose of this article is to review 10 years of experience with foot and lower leg burns in patients with diabetes at a single adult burn center. Patients with lower extremity burns and diabetes mellitus, between May 1999 and December 2009, were identified in the Tr...

This article reports a clinical study investigating the role of polarised-light therapy in the conservative treatment of deep dermal burn wounds. In 22 out of 67 patients with deep dermal burn wounds, clinical evaluation revealed only a very limited potential for spontaneous healing, and, despite the fact that the majority of the surgeons (four out of six) would have recommended surgery, these ...

Objective: When hands suffer burns, the tendons and digital bones are rarely injured because of the quick withdrawal reflex away from the heat source. Hence, a consensus of opinion regarding the treatment of severe hand burns with osseous blood flow deficiency has not been reached among clinicians. Methods: The patient was a 28-year-old woman whose fingers were accidentally soaked in heated coo...

BACKGROND Burn wound infections carry considerable mortality and morbidity amongst burn injury victims who have been successfully rescued through the initial resuscitation. This study assessed the prevalent microrganisms causing burn wound infections among hospitalized patients their susceptibility pattern to commonly used antibiotics and the frequency of infections with respect to the duratio...

We report on the experimental realization of large fractional pulse delays in a hot, Doppler-broadened rubidium vapor. A pump laser burns a deep spectral hole in the inhomogeneously broadened vapor. The delay is shown to be widely tunable by both power broadening the resonance and frequency modulating the pump laser. The simplicity of the scheme opens up the possibility for practical optical de...

Background: Burns are one of the most common and devastating forms trauma in life. Patients with serious thermal injury require immediate specialized care order to minimize morbidity mortality. Thermal creates a breach surface skin. It is difficult evaluate effects burn on serum levels vitamin D metabolites because binding proteins for 25-hydroxyvitamin (25(OH)D), main circulating form vitamin,...