Systemic sepsis resulting from invasive infection remains the leading cause of death among
patients hospitalized with major thermal injury. Prevention of infection and death in burn …

The care necessary for the extensively burned patient is of an intensity, variety and duration
most effectively and economically provided by the multidisciplinary staff of a specialized …

The book of Revelation describes the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse, conquest, death,
famine, and war as the hardships that human kind must endure before the end of the world …

Burn mortality statistics may be misleading unless they account properly for the many factors
which may influence outcome. In reviewing such factors in our patients, we identified age …

The charts of 937 patients have been reviewed for survival and length of stay. Probit
analysis and binary logistic regression has been performed to develop probability of dying …

Fluid and Electrolyte Replacement in the Burned Patient Page 1 SYlilpusium on Burns Fluid and
Electrolyte Replacement in the Burned Patient Basil A. Pruitt, Jr., MD, FACS* Coagulation …

We studied the haemodynamic effects of antioxidant therapy with high-dose vitamin C
administration (170 mg/kg/24 h) in guinea-pigs with 70 per cent body surface area deep …

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the job of your life. You really want this job. If you get this job, you are going to be able to …

The charts of patients with burns covering more than 40 per cent of the body surface area
(BSA) who were admitted to the Burn Unit of the Soroka Medical Center, Beersheva, Israel …

During the past century, wartime surgical experience and military medical research,
principally that conducted in the US Army Medical Corps and the US Navy Bureau of …