Improved and standardized method for assessing years lived with disability after burns and its application to estimate the non-fatal burden of disease of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Burden of disease estimates are an important resource in public health. Currently, robust estimates are not available for the burn population.
Baar, Margriet E. van +9 more
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Identifying patient concerns during consultations in tertiary burns services: development of the Adult Burns Patient Concerns Inventory [PDF]
, 2019 ObjectivesIdentifying the issues and concerns that matter most to burns survivors can be challenging. For a number of reasons, but mainly relating to patient empowerment, some of the most pressing concerns patients may have during a clinical encounter ...
Brown, Liz +6 more
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Reasoning About the Reliability of Multi-version, Diverse Real-Time Systems [PDF]
, 2010 This paper is concerned with the development of reliable real-time systems for use in high integrity applications. It advocates the use of diverse replicated channels, but does not require the dependencies between the channels to be evaluated.
Burns, A., Littlewood, B.
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An unexpected long-term complication of genital burn in a child: Secondary cryptorchidism [PDF]
, 2018 Genital and perineal burns are rare and challenging injuries with serious long-term complications. Involvement of the testes is a sign of severity. There is limited knowledge in the literature about the management of complications and testes involvement ...
Deliağa, H. +3 more
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Corneoscleral laceration and ocular burns caused by electronic cigarette explosions [PDF]
, 2016 PURPOSE: To report cases of acute globe rupture and bilateral corneal burns from electronic cigarette (EC) explosions. METHODS: Case series. RESULTS: We describe a series of patients with corneal injury caused by EC explosions.
Echalier, Elizabeth +6 more
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Emergency Medicine International, 2023 Objective. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections (NSTIs) are rare clinical infections with surgical emergencies having a high mortality rate. This study aimed to investigate risk factors for mortality and amputation of patients with NSTI. Methods.
Hanghui Cen +3 more
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A rare case of failed healing in previously burned skin after a secondary burns
Burns & Trauma, 2017 Background Patients presenting with large surface area burns are common in our practice; however, patients with a secondary large burn on pre-existing burn scars and grafts are rare and not reported.
Stephen J. Goldie +4 more
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Methylene Chloride Burns: A Case Report and Review of Literature
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2021 Chemical burns account for a small percentage of burns but contribute to significant number of burn-related mortalities. The major challenge posed by chemical burns is difficulty in correct depth estimation, as the damage continues to progress until they
Neha Chauhan, R. Shankar Prasad
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The Epidemiology of Chemical Burns Among the Patients Referred to Burn Centers in Shiraz, Southern Iran, 2008–2018 [PDF]
Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma, 2021 Objective: To investigate the prevalence of chemical burns among the patients admitted to Shiraz burn treatment centers. Methods: It is a descriptive study that was conducted on 62 patients with chemical burns who were admitted between 2008 and 2018. The
Hosein Abbasi +4 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundPediatric burns of all the ages are prevalent worldwide, posing a severe health risk to children. This study aims to examine pediatric burns' clinical characteristics and epidemiology in central China.MethodsThe pediatric patients of the Burn ...
Dawei Han +9 more
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