Ronald G. Tompkins

TL;DR: When managed in a coordinated long-term program, the large majority of children with serious hand burns can be expected to have excellent functional results.

TL;DR: 10 sites were grafted on 6 children with limited (< 25%) areas of body surface available for donor harvest with an acellular allogenic dermis and a thin autograft and successful initial epithelialization was noted at 7 days postburn.

TL;DR: Development of positive pressure ventilation, lung protective ventilation strategies, general critical care techniques, and innovative modes of support have contributed to markedly enhanced survival in patients with burns that were previously routinely lethal, but respiratory failure remains a serious problem in the burn intensive care unit.

TL;DR: A conventional ventilation protocol based on permissive hypercapnia is associated with acceptable rates of barotrauma and pneumonia and the low incidence of respiratory death associated with this strategy suggests that it also minimizes ventilator-induced lung injury.

TL;DR: In critically ill trauma patients who are able to tolerate at least some enteral nutrition during the first week, early PN administration can contribute to increased infectious morbidity and worse clinical outcomes.