Suday, Sptem er 5, 2016 to Nepali patients who underwent burn scar contracture release of the palmar hand and would not be able to return to the hospital for long-term physical therapy after their surgery. Patients were instructed to wear the splint at night for six months and to progressively extend the splint’s ratchet mechanism as tolerated. Patients were assessed for range of motion and han...

Suday, Sptem er 5, 2016 to Nepali patients who underwent burn scar contracture release of the palmar hand and would not be able to return to the hospital for long-term physical therapy after their surgery. Patients were instructed to wear the splint at night for six months and to progressively extend the splint’s ratchet mechanism as tolerated. Patients were assessed for range of motion and han...

Antimicrobial therapy remains to be the most important method of wound infection treatment. Systemically administered antimicrobials may not achieve therapeutic level in wound. On the other hand, in the absence of surgical debridement (due to any reason), most topically applied antimicrobials cannot penetrate the wound in therapeutic amount due to the presence of eschar. Burn eschar is a protei...

      Aloe vera is a tropical plant belonging to the Liliaceae family. It has beneficialeffects in variety of diseases. The aim of this study was to formulate a topical cream from A. vera with wound burn healing effect and to perform its clinical trial. A total of 30 patients (20 males and 10 females in the age range of 20-50 years) with second degree burn wounds on their both...

PURPOSE To examine the effect of inpatient rehabilitation therapy on range of motion, hand function and balance in the burn population. METHODS This study utilizes a prospective longitudinal design. Inclusion criteria are adults admitted to a regional inpatient rehabilitation hospital with a primary diagnosis of burn injury. Demographic and medical data are collected. Primary outcomes include...

BACKGROUND It has been shown that topical nanoliposomal formulations improve burn healing process. On the other hand, it has been shown that liposomal formulations increase drug deposition in the normal skin while decrease their systemic absorption; there is not such data available for burn eschar. Present investigation studies permeation of clindamycin phosphate (CP) through burn eschar from l...

Bacterial flora in burn patients undergoes change over period of time and is dependent upon many factors. Study of burn flora is not only helpful in locating entry of multidrug resistant bacterial strains into the unit's usual flora but also in determining current antibiotic susceptibilities. Since no studies are available from India that have studied sequential emergence of different microorga...

OBJECTIVES To describe common patterns of bath water scald injuries in children, to examine differences between accidental and non-accidental bath water scalds in children, and to examine potential for prevention. DESIGN A two year six month retrospective analysis of admissions to a specialist burns unit. SETTING The Burns Unit, St Lawrence Hospital, Chepstow serving children from south and...

BACKGROUND The use of a tourniquet in hand surgery is generally accepted as necessary to create a clear visualization of the operative field. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of one-per-million tumescent solution (1:1,000,000 epinephrine concentration) in creating a bloodless operative field in post-burn hand deformity surgeries performed without a tourniquet. METHODS This retro...

BACKGROUND Crocodile oil and its products are used as ointments for burns and scalds in traditional medicines. A new ointment formulation - crocodile oil burn ointment (COBO) was developed to provide more efficient wound healing activity. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the burn healing efficacy of this new formulation by employing deep second-degree burns in a Wistar rat model. The an...