Cleon W. Goodwin

TL;DR: The goal of the consensus conference was to develop and publish standardized definitions for sepsis and infection-related diagnoses in the burn population, which will improve the capability of performing more meaningful multicenter trials among burn centers.

TL;DR: Current techniques of burn wound care have significantly reduced the incidence of invasive burn wound infection, altered the organisms causing the infections that do occur, increased the interval between injury and the onset of infection, reduced the mortality associated with infection, decreased the overall incidence of infection in burn patients, and increased burn patient survival.

TL;DR: A chitosan dressing reduced hemorrhage and improved survival after severe liver injury in swine and an advanced he mostatic dressing could augment available hemostatic methods.

TL;DR: The changes in hepatic glucose output in bacteremic patients occurred without significant differences in EHBF, oxygen utilization, or lactate uptake, but were associated with marked alterations in amino acid uptake.

TL;DR: The addition of colloid to crystalloid resuscitation fluids produces no long lasting benefit on total body blood flow, and promotes accumulation of lung water when edema fluid is being reabsorbed from the burn wound.