Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
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Burn injuries can present with catastrophic physical and psychiatric harm with extensive, long-term sequelae. The pediatric population may especially be at-risk given this population's early neurocognitive and behavioral state of development. Innovations in treatment modalities and the development of evidence-based guidelines have helped mitigate burn morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. Unfortunately, a surprising dearth of literature identifies risk-factors, epidemiological data, injury mechanisms, and prognostic factors within the pediatric population in the setting of craniofacial burns. ⋯ Craniofacial burns in the pediatric population may present with complex pathology and sometimes necessitate advanced care. Presentations and prognoses are different dependent upon age and injury mechanism. These findings may serve as important framework in the establishment of guidelines for medical and legislative reform.
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The currently available practices for creation of burns in the animals are mostly manual which may lead to lack of uniform wound. There is a need to develop a suitable device that could reproduce and uniformly create burn wound in animal models without the procedural variations and human variability. Present study deals with development of a burn device which has been designed for creation of animal models for burn injury. ⋯ Present study demonstrates that the device is able to generate precise and uniform burn wound in mice model. The device may be useful for burn related studies and validation of burn wound care products.
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Letter Retraction Of Publication
Burns first aid practices amongst paediatric caregivers following secondary advice.
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