PATTERNS OF TREATMENT OF COMBINED BURN EYE INJURIES IN PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED IN BURN UNITS
The paper is focused on combined burn injuries of the eye, face and other body parts in acute care patients treated in non-ophthalmic hospital departments.
E. V. Chentsova +4 more
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Optimal Multi-Objective Burn-In Policy Based on Time-Transformed Wiener Degradation Process
Burn-in is an effective and widely used means to improve product reliability by eliminating weak units before they are distributed in the market. Traditional burn-in that distinguishes weak units by failure during testing is inefficient and incompetent ...
Yi Lyu +4 more
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Management of Elderly Burn Patients
Burn injuries are the principal reasons accounting for emergency department admissions in elderly patients. Elderly patients over 65 years of age constitute between 13% and 20% of admissions to burn units, but have the highest death rate among the ...
Shin-Bin Huang +3 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on global burn care [PDF]
Burn care; COVID-19; Surgical proceduresCura de cremades; COVID-19; Procediments quirúrgicsCuidado de quemaduras; COVID-19; Procedimientos quirúrgicosBackground Worldwide, different strategies have been chosen to face the COVID-19-patient surge, often ...
Laura, Pompermaier +5 more
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Experiences, Difficulties, and Coping Methods of Burn Nurses: An Exploratory-Descriptive Qualitative Study [PDF]
Caring for burn patients is both physically and emotionally exhausting for nurses. Each nurse can experience different emotions and make different senses of these experiences.
Karahan, Sabri +2 more
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What do we know about experiencing the end-of-life in burn intensive care units? a scoping review [PDF]
Objectives: To review and synthetize the evidence on end-of-life in burn intensive care units about (i) the characteristics of end-of-life in burn intensive care units, (ii) the symptom control provided to burned patients facing dying and death in this ...
Sandra Martins Pereira +7 more
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Epidemiological profile of burned patients at the Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Uberlândia in Brazil [PDF]
Introduction: Burns are lesions caused by agents external to organic tissues, in which there is the destruction of the epithelial lining and/or mucous membranes in varying depth and extension.
Douglas Ravel Neto Diniz Ribeiro +4 more
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Profile of patients hospitalized in a burn treatment center in northern Paraná [PDF]
Introduction: Burns are injuries arising from heat and represent a serious public health problem in the world due to physical or psychological sequelae of permanent character, and require specialized investment and quality.
Flávia Mendonça da Silva Oussaki +2 more
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Psycho-social needs of family members of patients hospitalized in the burn intensive care unit: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
This study aimed to determine the psycho-social needs of the families of patients hospitalized in the burn intensive care unit (ICU). This cross-sectional study recruited 152 family members of patients hospitalized in the burn ICU, using the convenience ...
Mohammad Ali Heidari Gorji +3 more
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Seasonal impact in burn profiles in a dedicated burn unit [PDF]
The number of burns in Portugal remains considerably large and therefore constitutes a major public health problem. There is a shortage of studies describing the epidemiological and clinical impact of seasonality on burn centre admissions, particularly in high income countries.This retrospective analysis included all patients (>18 years old) with acute
Luís Mata Ribeiro +3 more
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