The Ocular Surface Chemical Burns [PDF]
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014 Ocular chemical burns are common and serious ocular emergencies that require immediate and intensive evaluation and care. The victims of such incidents are usually young, and therefore loss of vision and disfigurement could dramatically affect their lives. The clinical course can be divided into immediate, acute, early, and late reparative phases.
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Chemical burns – case presentation [PDF]
Romanian Medical Journal, 2018 Burns are entirely particular lesions, which must always be regarded as severe, especially at extreme ages, which affect the body in its entirety. Both the local lesion and the general bodily reaction are dynamic and entail characteristic sequences, which can be anticipated and prevented, in order to reduce the risk of complications and to provide the ...
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Ocular chemical burns in the workplace: epidemiological characteristics of a Spanish cohort. [PDF]
Burns, 2019 Background Epidemiological studies focusing on occupational pathologies can be an important medium through which to bring about change with respect to workplace accidents, both in terms of prevention planning and management as well as the appropriate ...
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Prevalence of burns in children 0 to 14 years admitted into Paediatric surgical ward of Murtala Muhammad Specialist hospital Kano-Nigeria [PDF]
, 2022 Background: Burns internally, means an injury due to either fire or chemical on the human. In fact burn injury is a major public health problem and leading cause of childhood mobility and mortality world Wide.
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Effects of ascorbic acid on chemical and thermal corneal burns: A comprehensive literature review [PDF]
, 2021 Background: Ascorbic acid has been suggested to be effective against chemical burns. It was first tested in rabbits before being implemented in human subjects.
Al-Namaeh, Mashael, Andersson, Robert
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Agents, mechanisms and clinical features of non-scald burns in children: a prospective UK study [PDF]
, 2017 Aims: To inform childhood burn prevention by identifying demographics, clinical features and circumstances of unintentional non-scald burns. Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted across Cardiff, Bristol and Manchester, including six
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Chemical burns of the eye: epidemiology and treatment [PDF]
, 2000 Purpose: Chemical injuries of the eye may produce exten-sive damage to the ocular surface, resulting in transient or per-manent visual impairment. Purposes: To obtain data about epidemiology and inicial treatment aplied to patients who have suffered from
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Annals of Surgery, 1974 The development of effective, non-toxic (local and systemic) methods for the rapid chemical (enzymatic and non-enzymatic) debridement of third degree burns would dramatically reduce the morbidity and mortality of severely burned patients. Sepsis is still the major cause of death of patients with extensive deep burns.
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Nuptial gift chemistry reveals convergent evolution correlated with antagonism in mating systems of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) [PDF]
, 2018 Nuptial gifts are material donations given from male to female before or during copulation and are subject to sexual selection in a wide variety of taxa.
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Long-term scar quality after hydrosurgical versus conventional debridement of deep dermal burns (HyCon trial): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Deep dermal burns require tangential excision of non-viable tissue and skin grafting to improve wound healing and burn-scar quality. Tangential excision is conventionally performed with a knife, but during the last decade hydrosurgery has ...
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