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This study tested how effective the medication propranolol is in treating children with major burn injuries. Researchers looked at whether propranolol can help reduce problems with the functioning of body systems and organs caused by burn injury. The study tested the effectiveness medicine in children in ...
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Inflammation created by burn injuries contributes to increased rates of infections, sepsis, organ failure, and death. This study explored with a biomarker, interleukin 8 (IL-8), could be used to predict post-burn sepsis, infections, and mortality.
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IL-8 may be a valid biomarker for monitoring ...
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This study aimed at investigating and reporting peri-operative effects of propranolol administration in adults with severe burn injury. Propranolol has been shown to increase vascular resistance diminishing peripheral blood flow following burn injury. Previous studies have reported that administration of propranolol has increased body composition, resting ...
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Researchers were interested in the effectiveness of an intervention that increased the rate of return to work among burn survivors. The study looked at a group of interventions that sought to return employees who had been injured on the job back to work within 90 days ...
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Hypertrophic scarring following burn trauma is thought to be an important contributor to treatment outcomes. In order to understand the risks from burns, a good, reliable measure of scars is needed. The researchers set out to survey burn-care providers to learn if a widely used scar ...
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Contact with the surface of glass fireplace doors has been a cause of burn injuries in children since the first reported case in 1998. Since that time, numerous studies have been conducted, which show that glass fireplace doors pose a danger to children and safety precautions ...
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Survivors of burn injuries face a series of complex issues and require coordinated outpatient care. This study analyzed the impact of supplementing outpatient services with an Expanded Care Coordinator (ECC) on reducing barriers to effective burn rehabilitation. Patients were randomized to receive either the standard outpatient ...
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The stress response to surgery, critical illness, trauma, and burns involves disruptions of metabolic and physiological processes. The disturbances in the inflammatory, acute phase, and hormonal responses lead to muscle wasting, impaired immune function and wound healing, organ failure, and death. The surgery-induced stress response is ...
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Researchers examined how inhalation injury, in addition to burn injury, affects the metabolic rate of severely burned children. Metabolic rate measures how quickly the body uses energy. As the rate goes up, the body uses more protein for energy. This leads to muscle loss. When coupled ...
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People who have sustained burn injuries are reported to have high levels of blood sugar. This study aimed to determine if insulin treatment has a measurable effect in treating severely burned children. The study looked at blood sugar levels, body composition,resting energy expenditure (REE), muscle strength, ...
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Burns are associated with hyperglycemia (abnormally high level of glucose in the blood) leading to increased incidence of infections. One of the major infectious complications is pneumonia, which has been shown to increase burn mortality by 40%. In critically ill adult patients, it has been shown ...
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One of the deadliest fires in American history occurred at The Station nightclub in 2003. Researchers surveyed survivors of this event in order to study the impact of the emotional trauma on psychological outcomes. The main goal was to gain further insight to the effect of ...
E-cigarette use is on the rise among current, former, and never smokers. An internal battery is just one of many parts that make e-cigarettes different from conventional tobacco products. But the batteries are dangerous. They are overheating and causing fires or explosions. This is known as “thermal runaway.”
Explosions from e-cigarettes ...