H. Carsin

TL;DR: Serum concentrations seem to be correlated with the severity of microbial invasion, and Concentrations of a substance immunologically identical to procalcitonin are raised during septic conditions.

TL;DR: This randomised phase 1/2 trial aimed to compare the efficacy and tolerability of a cocktail of lytic anti-Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophages with standard of care for patients with burns and found insufficient efficacy of PP1131.

TL;DR: The use of fibrin matrices has been shown to have considerable advantages over plastic for the culture of skin cells for grafting and that it is now possible to generate and transplant enough cultured epithelium from a small skin biopsy to restore completely the epidermis of an adult human in 16 days as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Epicel CEA successfully provided extensive, permanent burn coverage in severely traumatized patients, proving an important adjunct to achievement of a high survival rate in a patient population whose prognosis previously had been poor.

TL;DR: ProCT and IL6 are prognostic factors of mortality at the time of admission but less reliable than the clinical UBS (unit burn standard) score, and endotoxin and TNF alpha were undetectable, suggesting that the problem of the early gut bacterial translocation remains to be proven.