Showing papers in "Burns in 2012"

TL;DR: Despite only minimal pain reduction achieved using off-the-shelf VR, other results from this trial and previous research on younger children with burns suggest a customized, adolescent and hospital friendly device may be more effective in pain reduction.

TL;DR: This review summarises the available evidence for the clinimetric properties of reliability, validity, responsiveness, interpretability and feasibility of existing scales and considers the POSAS, with high quality reliability but indeterminate validity, to be superior in performance based on existing evidence.

TL;DR: It is suggested that silver-containing dressings and topical silver were either no better or worse than control dressings in preventing wound infection and promoting healing of burn wounds.

TL;DR: Preventing injurious burn-related violence requires a multifaceted approach, including legislation and enforcement, education, and advocacy, and better standardized assessment tools are needed to screen for risks of abuse and for psychiatric disorders in perpetrators.

TL;DR: This Internet-based survey provides a first insight into a 'wish list' of properties for burn wound dressings required by specialists in burn care from around the world as to date no such burn wound dressing seems to be available in clinical practice according to the poll.

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: There was no long-term difference of scar qualities in the study between the different artificial dermis and the control group, and there was no difference in wound contraction and in Vancouver scale after 2 and 6 months of healing.

TL;DR: The candidate pathways mediating epidermal cell proliferation and migration are linked to cell anchoring to substrates by integrin-mediated focal adhesion.

TL;DR: The ReCell(®) device is suggested to provide a method for the preparation of a cell suspension with high viability and proliferative potential, containing viable melanocytes and no apparent toxic cell debris.

TL;DR: The kefir gel therapy was an effective therapeutic approach to improve outcomes after severe burn as compared to conventional silver sulfadiazine treatment.

TL;DR: The findings of this study show that the genes, particularly the exoU gene, encoding the type III secretion toxins, are commonly disseminated among the P. aeruginosa strains isolated from burn patients.

TL;DR: A new colour palette for LDI burn imaging is devised based on healing times of a series of burns, which will assist in the prediction of burn healing potential.

TL;DR: The maximum procalcitonin level has prognostic value in burn patients and can be used as a diagnostic tool in patients with infectious complications with or without bacteremia during ICU stay, which may be a valuable tool in monitoring the effectiveness of antibiotic therapy in burn ICU patients.

TL;DR: Patients with extensive burns have a poorer quality of life compared with that of general population and information will aid clinicians in decision-making of comprehensive systematic regimens for long term rehabilitation and psychosocial treatment.

TL;DR: Debridement of deep-hand burns with a selective enzymatic agent decreased the perceived full-thickness wound area and skin-graft use.

TL;DR: The morphology of four commercial Ag dressings is characterized by scanning electron microscopy and the mean inhibitory concentrations are exceeded for most common pathogens in serum substitute and sterile water, but the presence of high Cl(-) concentrations tend to inactivate the dressings.

TL;DR: The mechanisms and patterns of antimicrobial resistance among the isolates obtained from burned patients with wound infections at a teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran were determined to identify drug resistance patterns in A. baumannii isolates.

TL;DR: If the significant potentials of telemedicine to assist in the acute triage, management guidance and outpatient care are to be realised, then research needs to be undertaken to provide evidence for such investment.

TL;DR: Early intervention was associated with a decreased time to healing with fewer dressing changes, less pain and better scar outcomes and investment of surgical resources in the acute stages within 4 days of injury saved on nursing time, dressing, analgesic and scar management costs.

TL;DR: This is the largest cohort of NASTI patients from a single institution to date, demonstrating significantly shorter LOS and decreased non-wound infection rates in the face of increasing BMI and APACHE II scores.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that use of the HINS-light EDS allows efficacious bacterial reductions over and above that achieved by standard cleaning and infection control measures in both inpatient and outpatient settings in the burn unit.

TL;DR: It is suggested that patients experience uncontrolled pain both physically and psychologically which may serve as an alert for awareness of health professionals to recognize and establish a multidisciplinary pain management team for burn victims to accomplish safe and effective strategies for pain control.

TL;DR: A wide literature review was made on articles published regarding burns injuries in Iran, exploring the role of gender and age in burns, defining the agents causing burns, burn extent, burn mortality and place of injury occurrence, and some areas with paucity of information were identified.

TL;DR: The findings of this study represent an important advance in understanding the role of keratinocytes as a direct potent modulator for matrix degradation and scar tissue remodeling, possibly through inactivation of MMPs.

TL;DR: It seems that S. aureus strains comprising LukE/D and PVL genes are more important in the disease process and associated with severe skin diseases, fatal pneumonia and osteomyelitis with high morbidity and mortality.

TL;DR: Investigation of the selectivity of DGD to burned eschar in a larger number and more varied types of wounds found no apparent damage to the underlying sub eschar dermis, donor sites, normal skin or punch biopsy wells after exposure to DGD.

TL;DR: NAC treatment is associated with a diminished oxidative stress reflected in preserved antioxidant levels, lower inflammation mirrored in lower interleukin levels and less vasopressor requirement.

TL;DR: All the mupirocinresistant isolates and almost all the erythromycin resistant isolates were also resistant against methicillin which may indicate an outbreak of MRSA isolates with high-level m upirocin and erystromycin resistance in the burn unit assessed.

TL;DR: VEB-1 and OXA-10 are the predominant ESBL genes and bla(VIM) is the dominate MBL gene in ESC-non-sensitive P. aeruginosa isolates in Saudi Arabia.

TL;DR: Specific functional measures, range of motion, hand function and balance, demonstrate significant improvement during inpatient rehabilitation.