However, in some instances, a patient may present with severe burns accompanied with serious multisystem injury requiring high-level evaluation. Familiarity with burn-specific components of the initial assessment coupled with an effectively implemented referral system can help shorten hospital stay, reduce...
Comparatively little attention has been given to the impact of smaller burns (less than 20% body surface area) on patients' health status after their retur... V Shakespeare - 《Burns Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries》 被引量: 92发表: 1998年 Evaluation of the usefulness ...
Introduction: Inhalation injury remains a significant source of morbidity and mortality in patients with thermal injury. Thus, the management of inhalation... Porro,Mlcak,Herndon 被引量: 2发表: 2012年 Critical Care of the Burned Patient: Resuscitation of major burns Introduction: Inhalation injury ...
Despite development of combustiology, infections continue to be the most important cause of death among patients with burns. Sepsis is the most severe clinical presentation of infection in patients after thermal injuries who require immediate treatment. Early diagnosis and proper treatment of sepsis are...
The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is recorded on Axis V (Table 17-6).19 The GAF is a number between 0 and 100 that summarizes the clinician's view of the patient's current degree of impairment in terms of psychosocial and occupational or educational function. Generally, normal func...
That is to say, while the physician, as the person responsible for the patient, had previously had access to the patient's medical record, clinical examination or information from other physicians, and had already taken clinical decisions, he/she was not allowed to consult any source of ...
We assessed the frequency of hospitalized burn injuries in Massachusetts, and product involvement in causing burns, by reviewing the hospital inpatient records and emergency room logbooks for 240 of New England's 256 acute-care hospitals. Children less than two years of age, males, and Blacks exp...
A multidimensional model for the assessment of pain in a pediatric burn patient is presented along with recommendations based on various levels of development.Ann BonhamInternational Journal of Trauma NursingBONHAM, A. 1996. Managing procedural pain in children with burns: Part 1: assessment of pain...
1) Males or females of 6 months-6 years old, 2) thermal burns caused by scalding, 3) partial thickness (superficial or deep dermal) or full thickness burn wounds requiring temporary skin cover according to the burn surgeon responsible for the patient, 4) signed informed consent from all lega...
(ii) the trial was led and coordinated by the principal investigator of the present study (JV), and thus we had detailed patient level data on all subjects in the trial; (iii) the trial is one of the very few RCTs performed in the last decade in patients with moderate/severe ARDS ...