Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
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Legislative changes in 2008 in Australia mandated that all new treadmills display a warning sticker about the risk of friction burns in children. This was accompanied by a health promotion campaign advising of the risks of treadmills to children. ⋯ A significant number of treadmill burns occur in children, and these often result in serious injuries that are not treated with appropriate first aid. A reduction in the incidence of these burns was associated with the introduction of legislation and health promotion targeted at child safety around treadmills.
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In Tunisia, few data are available about self-immolation epidemiology especially in the absence of official statistics on suicides. The aim of our study was to analyze the trends of suicide by self-immolation over a period of ten years (2005-2014). ⋯ Our study showed that self-immolation affects essentially, young men, who are unemployed and mostly having mental diseases.
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Observational Study
Heart rate variability and cardiac baroreflex inhibition-derived index predicts pain perception in burn patients.
Dressing changes induce acute pain in burn patients. This pain is difficult to predict and may be therefore undertreated. Two different non-invasive electrophysiological indices from heart rate variability and baroreflex inhibition-derived indices, analgesia/nociception index (ANI) and cardiovascular depth of analgesia (CARDEAN), have been proposed to predict and better assess adequacy of anti-nociception. The aim of this study was to evaluate these techniques as early pain alert tools in conscious burnt patients during dressing changes' procedures. ⋯ Both ANI and CARDEAN indices during wound treatment procedures seem to discriminate periods with and without pain within 15s, serving as a potential complementary tool for early optimized pain control.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Combination of medical needling and non-cultured autologous skin cell transplantation (ReNovaCell) for repigmentation of hypopigmented burn scars.
Burn scars remain a serious physical and psychological problem for the affected people. Clinical studies as well as basic scientific research have shown that medical needling can significantly increase the quality of burn scars with comparatively low risk and stress for the patient with regards to skin elasticity, moisture, erythema and transepidermal water loss. However, medical needling has no influence on repigmentation of large hypopigmented scars. ⋯ Taken together, the pigmentation ratings and objective measures indicate individual improvement in 17 of the study participants. The melanin increases seen 12 months after NCASCS treatment are statistically significant. Medical needling in combination with NCASCS shows promise for repigmentation of burn cars.
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Little is known about gender differences in aetiology and management of acute burns in resource-constrained settings in South Africa. ⋯ Burns were far more common among children although gender differences arose only among adults. Men sustained more injuries of somewhat different aetiology and were referred to higher levels of care more often for comparable wound severity. The results suggest different disposition between men and women despite similar AIS scores. However, further studies with more comprehensive information on severity level and other care- and patient-related factors are needed to explore these results further.