Showing papers in "Burns in 2007"

TL;DR: The present review aims at examining all available evidence about effects of silver on wound infection control and on wound healing trying to determine the practical therapeutic balance between antimicrobial activity and cellular toxicity.

TL;DR: The evidence suggested that bioengineered skin substitutes, namely Biobrane, TransCyte, Dermagraft, Apligraf, autologous cultured skin, and allogeneic cultured skin were at least as safe as biological skin replacements or topical agents/wound dressings or allograft.

TL;DR: C cumulative evidence tends to support that aloe vera might be an effective interventions used in burn wound healing for first to second degree burns.

TL;DR: Progress accomplished since Reinwald and Green first described their keratinocyte culture technique is reviewed and questions related to optimal cell type for culture, culture techniques, transplantation of confluent sheets or non-confluent cells, carrier and transfer modality, as well as final outcome, ability to generate an epithelium after transplantation, and scar quality are still not fully answered.

TL;DR: Matriderm is considered as a promising dermal substitute for the treatment of severe hand burns after an early debridement and immediate grafting with the matrix and unmeshed skin graft was carried out in a one-stage procedure.

TL;DR: Inhalation injury has now become the most frequent cause of death in burn patients and a well organized, protocol driven approach to respiratory care of inhalation injury is needed so that improvements can be made and the morbidity and mortality associated with inhalation injuries be reduced.

TL;DR: ReCell is a feasible, simple and safe technique that gives similar results to skin grafting but, harvesting minor areas, can open possible future applications in the management of large-burns patients.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that several SES factors are associated with increased risk of burn and these factors provide a template of factors to be considered when studying burn populations.

TL;DR: This study has confirmed the view that Acticoat products are safe for use on burns and they remain a standard part of treatment at the centre.

TL;DR: Acticoat with nanocrystalline silver promotes the healing process of residual wounds post-burn effectively and no adverse reaction of Acticoat was found during the study.

TL;DR: It is thought that the improvement in results among patients admitted to hospital after burns is a combination of preventive measures, improved treatment protocols, and an expanding strategy by which burned patients are treated as outpatients.

TL;DR: The role of nutrition support in critical illness has shifted from one of preventing malnutrition to one of disease modulation, although the evidence is often lagging.

TL;DR: The results indicate that combining Integra with autologous cells facilitates one-step skin reconstruction of a full-thickness skin wound.

TL;DR: The Suprathel membrane adhered rapidly to the wound thus protecting against infections and promoting wound healing, and the ability of the material to resorb ensured pain-free removal after complete healing of the wound.

TL;DR: Serum procalcitonin levels can be used as an early indicator of septic complication in patients with severe burn injury and showed reasonable discriminative power in predicting of sepsis only for PCT.

TL;DR: A technique to engineer living bilayer human skin equivalent using human fibrin matrix is successfully developed to create a more clinical compliance skin graft composite for the treatment of various skin defects.

TL;DR: Decorin has a down-regulatory effect on cell proliferation, TGF-beta(1) production, and collagen synthesis in hypertrophic scar fibroblasts, and improved understanding of such a regulatory mechanisms may eventually be of therapeutic significance in the control of hypertrophic Scarring.

TL;DR: Data from this and other studies supports the hypothesis that A. baumannii is more common in tropical, warm climes necessitating vigorous infection control measures to optimise patient outcome.

TL;DR: A novel finding is the decreased likelihood of mortality associated with the administration of albumin during burn resuscitation.

TL;DR: The data suggest that young burn survivors appear to be coping well in comparison to their peers, and in some areas may be coping better, in spite of living with the physical, psychological and social consequences of burns.

TL;DR: It is concluded that Acticoat is a safe, cost-effective, efficacious dressing that reduces the time for re-epithelialisation and the requirement for grafting and long term scar management, compared to Silvazine.

TL;DR: Results indicate that both systemic and local administration of silymarin was effective against burn-induced oxidative damage and morphological alterations in rat skin, and merits consideration as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of burns.

TL;DR: The best available evidence was found for active hypnosis, rapid induction analgesia and distraction relaxation, however, in order to reduce methodological limitations, further research is needed before well-founded evidence based decisions for nursing practice can be made.

TL;DR: The videomicroscope is capable of accurately and objectively assessing burn depth and correlated well with both the clinical outcome and the laser Doppler findings, and is significantly cheaper than LDI and avoids several of the disadvantages of LDI.

TL;DR: A background to stem cell strategies in burns care is given and actual or prospective applications which, collectively, will forever change burns care throughout the world are identified.

TL;DR: A community prevention program targeting self-immolation can be effective, and interventions were particularly aimed at young women and socio-economically deprived groups, these being shown to be at high risk in earlier studies.

TL;DR: This longitudinal study confirms the validity, repeatability and responsiveness of the QuickDASH outcome measure in patients with upper limb burns and supports the use of thequickDASH in this population to help assess change in functional level.

TL;DR: The etiology of FWI was diverse; fungi with known resistance to each of the three major classes of antifungals were isolated, suggesting empirical use of one class may be inadequate to treat FWI.

TL;DR: A conservative wound management in IVIG series replaced an extensive epidermal debridment and coverage with artificial skin substitutes of the pre-IVIG series and showed a trend to lower actual mortality with IVIG treatment than the predicted mortality.

TL;DR: Though Jelonet is more cost effective as dressing material, the study revealed an overall reduction in total treatment costs achieved with Suprathel, representing a solid, reliable epidermal skin substitute with impact on wound healing, patient comfort and ease of care.