Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
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Six patients sustained a unique type of burn injury while working during the manufacture of cement in China. These patients suffered a combination of chemical and thermal injuries with extensive deep burns and inhalation injury, when they were involved in an accidental explosive leakage of cement from a manufacturing kiln. This report discusses the aetiology of the burn injury and the principles of treatment. All of these burns were preventable.
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This study investigated the effects of early excision of eschar and grafting with cyclosporin immunosuppression on immunological changes following burn injury. The immunological status of the rat was studied using two in vivo measures following a (30 per cent TBSA) full skin thickness burn injury. ⋯ The short course of the immunosuppressive treatment to delay skin allograft rejection did not cause a severe additional effect on cell-mediated immunity after thermal injury. Allograft survival appeared to be related to immunosuppression caused mainly by cyclosporin treatment and also by the immunosuppressive effect of the burn.