The objective of this prospective study was to consider the demographical data of burn patients admitted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, Pakistan. The study was carried out at PIMS from January 2002 to December 2003. Only admitted patients of either sex of age more than 12 yr were included. Patients below 12 yr were excluded. Patients requiring outpatient treatm...

Background: Burn injuries are amongst one of the most devastating all injuries, having a great impact on patients physically, physiologically and psychologically. Burns still top causes death disability in world.Aims: To study etiology burn, nature burn mortality rate patients.Material Method: A prospective institutional two year observational 100 injury admitted under department general surger...

Conflicts of interest between mates can promote the evolution of male traits that reduce female fitness and that drive coevolution between the sexes. The rate of adaptation depends on the intensity of selection and its efficiency, which depends on drift and genetic variability. This leads to the largely untested prediction that coevolutionary adaptations such as those driven by sexual conflict ...

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 hands were selected for...

Male redback spiders (Latrodectus hasselti) maximize paternity if they copulate twice with their cannibalistic mate. Facilitating cannibalistic attack during their first copulation yields paternity benefits. However, females have paired sperm-storage organs inseminated during two separate copulations, so males that succumb to partial cannibalism during the first copulation lose at least 50% of ...

Mortality remains one of the most important end-point quality control parameters to evaluate a burn care system. We retrospectively reviewed the characteristics and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) patterns of burn deaths in our center from January 2003 to December 2009. The mortality rate during this time period was 2.3%. Fifty-six patients died, including 49 males and 7 females. The...

BACKGROUND The thermal burn is accidental and also is the hidden and worst complication of medical plaster application. This study evaluated clinical and aetiological profile and severity of plaster burns. METHODS In Department of Burns, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery from 1st August 2014 to 31st December 2015, six patients with plaster burn were assessed for total body surface area and ...

INTRODUCTION Patients with self-inflicted burns (SIB) are thought to have a longer length of stay compared to patients with accidental burns. However, other predictors for a longer length of stay are often not taken into account, e.g. percentage of the body surface area burned, age or comorbidities. Therefore, we wanted to study the outcome of patients with SIB at our burn center. METHODS A r...

Objective: To compare Healing Effects of an Ayurvedic Preparation and Silver Sulfadiazine on burn wounds in Albino Rats. Methods: Albino rats–30 male / female rats weighing between 150-200g were used in the study. They were individually housed and maintained on normal diet and water ad libitum. Partial thickness burn wounds were inflicted, on overnight-starved animals under pentobarbitone (30mg...

Combined action of Vernonia amygdalinaone the herbs belonging to family Asteraceae and other pharmacognostic raw materials has been used in traditional medicine for ages. It produces quick therapeutic results treatment various conditions diseases such as malaria, diabetes, inflammation, hypertension mention but few. Aim: This work is the“screening wound healing effect Elaeis guineensis oil, ext...