Peter K.M. Maitz

TL;DR: The present article reviews and discusses issues in the current treatment of burn injuries; the advances and novel strategies developed in the past decade that have improved burn management; and also, pioneer ideas and studies in burn research which aims to enhance burn wound care with a focus on burn wound infection, pain management, treatments for scarring and skin tissue engineering.

TL;DR: Low and high porosity synthetic human elastin scaffolds obtained by adapting low and high flow rates respectively during electrospinning presented increased fiber diameter and greater average pore size and over doubling of overall scaffold porosity.

TL;DR: The 80T20C scaffolds supported fibroblast infiltration, de novo collagen deposition and new capillary formation, and were well tolerated in a mouse subcutaneous implantation study where they persisted over 6 weeks.

TL;DR: Hospital length of stay, operative costs, dressings and staffing were found to be the most significant components of cost and increased most prominently with %TBSA and compared to the findings, expenditure for prevention and education programs is minimal.

TL;DR: A novel, pure, synthetic material is presented that promotes the repair of full‐thickness skin wounds using a novel heat‐based, stabilized form of human tropoelastin which allows for tunable resorption.