{"title":"Energy expenditure in burns: let's measure something else.","authors":"Jeffrey R Saffle","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000185412.93979.f9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185412.93979.f9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 6","pages":"462-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185412.93979.f9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25680711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Close relative intermingled skin allograft and autograft use in the treatment of major burns in adults and children.","authors":"Atilla Coruh, Zeynep Tosun, Umut Ozbebit","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000185114.59640.b4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185114.59640.b4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Major burns still continue to pose problems of inadequate auto skin closure. Patients suffering severe burns lack adequate skin graft donor site. We present the results of 17 major adult and pediatric burns that we applied close relative intermingled skin allograft and autograft in the course of treatment. The extent of burn injury ranged from 40%-70% total body surface are (TBSA). Seven patients survived and 10 patients died. Mean percent TBSA of the dead and surviving patients were 55.5 +/- 11.16 (range, 40-70) and 55.0 +/- 4.08 (range, 50-60) respectively. Mean age of the dead and surviving patients were 16.1 +/- 13.77 (range, 2-42) and 11.1 +/- 6.74 (range, 2-21), respectively. We present a safe and satisfactory means of effective alternative treatment to resurface major burns in case of limited auto skin graft donor site without exposure to bacteria, human immunodeficiency virus, and hepatitis virus when keratinocyte culture facilities and skin banks are not available.</p>","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 6","pages":"471-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185114.59640.b4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25680714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. C. Chen, Chung-Lin Chen, C. Chiang, Shin-Chen Pan
{"title":"Erratum: Herpes simplex infection in a minor burn wound: A case report (Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, (2005) 26 (453-455))","authors":"C. C. Chen, Chung-Lin Chen, C. Chiang, Shin-Chen Pan","doi":"10.1097/00004630-200511000-00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00004630-200511000-00019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85116511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celebrating progress in psychosocial rehabilitation: empirically validating the efficacy of social skills training and body image assessment for burn survivors.","authors":"Thomas Pruzinsky","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000186728.54785.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000186728.54785.96","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 6","pages":"543-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000186728.54785.96","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25680047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad Umair Anwar, Sanjib Majumder, Orla Austin, Alan Phipps
{"title":"Smoking, substance abuse, psychiatric history, and burns: trends in adult patients.","authors":"Mohammad Umair Anwar, Sanjib Majumder, Orla Austin, Alan Phipps","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000185456.23779.6c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185456.23779.6c","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Keeping in mind the historical importance of the associations among smoking, substance abuse, psychiatric history, and burns, we collected the relevant data as part of a larger research project. A retrospective casenote review was conducted using 1981, 1991, and 2001 as reference years to identify the trends in acute adult admissions. In keeping with the increase in the total number of patients, burns victims who were smokers increased in numbers. The percentage increased in 2001 from other reference years, but it was not statistically significant. The results of our study also show no significant increase in trends as far as burns causation and alcohol/psychiatric history/drug dependence is concerned, but the prevalence of these conditions in burns patients has remained persistently high compared with the general population in the past 20 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 6","pages":"493-501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185456.23779.6c","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25680640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rungsinee A Liusuwan, Tina L Palmieri, Lysa Kinoshita, David G Greenhalgh
{"title":"Comparison of measured resting energy expenditure versus predictive equations in pediatric burn patients.","authors":"Rungsinee A Liusuwan, Tina L Palmieri, Lysa Kinoshita, David G Greenhalgh","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000185786.38365.3d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185786.38365.3d","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many equations have been developed to estimate resting energy expenditure (REE) in thermally injured patients. A consensus has not been reached on the accuracy of these equations in children. The purpose of our study was to compare three predictive equations: Harris Benedict x 2 multiplier (HB x 2), Mayes (MG), and the WorId Health Organization x 2 multiplier (WHO x 2) with measured resting energy expenditure x I.3 multiplier (MREE x 1.3) in pediatric burn patients. MREE was measured by open-circuit indirect calorimetry in 10 burned children (6 boys, 4 girls) aged 2 to 10 years with TBSA burn ranges from 35% to 97%. MREE x 1.3 was compared with values obtained by HB x 2, MG, and WHO x 2 predictive equations. When comparing MREE x 1.3 with all three equations, significant differences were found when compared with HB x 2 and MG, but there were no significant difference between MREE x 1.3 vs WHO x 2. The HB x 2 and MG equations overpredicted MREE x 1.3 by 29% and 19%, respectively. Many predictive equations have been developed to predict energy expenditure in burns, but their accuracy in predicting MREE x 1.3 is variable. A larger study comparing/contrasting predictive equations and resting energy expenditure measured by indirect calorimetry is needed to improve the prediction of energy needs in burned children.</p>","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 6","pages":"464-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185786.38365.3d","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25680712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David R King, Nicholas Namias, Louis R Pizano, Carl I Schulman, Gil Ward
{"title":"An unusual cause of septicemia and death in a burn patient: discussion and review.","authors":"David R King, Nicholas Namias, Louis R Pizano, Carl I Schulman, Gil Ward","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000185404.60027.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185404.60027.44","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sepsis remains a common source of morbidity and mortality for seriously burned patients. Sources of sepsis are varied, although some are dramatically more common than others. Rarely, the burn surgeon may be confronted with an infectious source that remains unelucidated until postmortem examination. This case report describes the hospital course and subsequent death of a severely burned patient with sepsis, the source of which was only discovered on postmortem examination by our county medical examiner.</p>","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 6","pages":"502-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185404.60027.44","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25680716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sedat Yildirim, Tark Zafer Nursal, Akin Tarim, Nurkan Torer, Turgut Noyan, Yusuf Ziya Demiroglu, Gokhan Moray, Mehmet Haberal
{"title":"Bacteriological profile and antibiotic resistance: comparison of findings in a burn intensive care unit, other intensive care units, and the hospital services unit of a single center.","authors":"Sedat Yildirim, Tark Zafer Nursal, Akin Tarim, Nurkan Torer, Turgut Noyan, Yusuf Ziya Demiroglu, Gokhan Moray, Mehmet Haberal","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000185454.72237.c6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185454.72237.c6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of the study was to define the bacteriological profile and antibiotic resistance patterns of a burn intensive care unit (ICU) and to compare them with the patterns from three other hospital areas in the same center (ie, cardiovascular-coronary ICU, a general ICU, and the hospital service unit). Bacterial isolates were collected prospectively from the burned patients and the patients from the other hospital areas between May 2001 and November 2003. In the burn ICU, Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the isolated pathogen most frequently (40.4%), followed by Staphylococcus aureus (29.3%) and Acinetobacter spp. (9.8%). S. aureus was the most common isolated pathogen in other hospital areas. The agents that were most effective against P. aeruginosa in the burn ICU were piperacillin/tazobactam and sulbactam/cefoperazon. We observed higher antimicrobial resistance in burn ICU than in the other hospital areas studied. In conclusion, bacteriological profile and antibiotic resistance patterns of patients in the burn ICU are significantly different from those in other ICUs and hospital units at our center. This knowledge is crucial for early treatment of infections in burned patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 6","pages":"488-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000185454.72237.c6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25680638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael F Ballesteros, Mark L Jackson, Maurice W Martin
{"title":"Working toward the elimination of residential fire deaths: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smoke Alarm Installation and Fire Safety Education (SAIFE) program.","authors":"Michael F Ballesteros, Mark L Jackson, Maurice W Martin","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000176966.94729.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000176966.94729.80","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To address residential fires and related injuries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funds state health departments to deliver a Smoke Alarm Installation and Fire Safety Education (SAIFE) program in high-risk homes in 16 states. This program involves recruiting local communities and community partners, hiring a local coordinator, canvassing neighborhood homes, installing long-lasting lithium-powered smoke alarms, and providing general fire safety education and 6-month follow-up to determine alarm functionality. Local fire departments are vital community partners in delivering this program. Since the program's inception, more than 212,000 smoke alarms have been installed in more than 126,000 high-risk homes. Additionally, approximately 610 lives have potentially been saved as a result of a program alarm that provided early warning to a dangerous fire incident.</p>","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 5","pages":"434-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000176966.94729.80","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25290462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominic Furniss, Sinclair Gore, Berge Azadian, Simon R Myers
{"title":"Acinetobacter infection is associated with acquired glucose intolerance in burn patients.","authors":"Dominic Furniss, Sinclair Gore, Berge Azadian, Simon R Myers","doi":"10.1097/01.bcr.0000176882.69354.7e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bcr.0000176882.69354.7e","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infection with antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter spp. is an increasing problem in critical care environments worldwide. Acinetobacter spp. are known to produce an insulin-cleaving protease. We hypothesized that infection with Acinetobacter spp. was associated with the acquisition of glucose intolerance in burn patients. Data were collected prospectively on all 473 patients admitted to the Burns Centre between January 2002 and March 2003. A total of 3.4% of patients acquired glucose intolerance during admission. Patients with Acinetobacter spp. infection were 9.8 times more likely to develop glucose intolerance than those without the infection (P < .0001). The association persisted after controlling for TBSA (P < .001). In patients with deep Acinetobacter spp. infection, 47% had glucose intolerance, compared with 12% in those with infection of the burn only (P = .03). In patients with pre-existing diabetes mellitus, 27% developed Acinetobacter spp. infection compared with only 8.5% of patients without diabetes (P = .04). This study demonstrates a clear association between Acinetobacter spp. infection and glucose intolerance in burns patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":22626,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation","volume":"26 5","pages":"405-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.bcr.0000176882.69354.7e","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25291764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}