Significance: Burns are debilitating, life threatening, and difficult to assess and manage.
Recent advances in assessment and management have occurred since a comprehensive …

Objective PTSD is increasingly recognized following medical traumas although is highly
heterogeneous. It is difficult to judge which medical contexts have the most traumatic …

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Background Thermal injury is a leading cause of unintentional pediatric trauma morbidity
and mortality. Methods This retrospective analysis of the 2003–2016 Kids' Inpatient …

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as key regulators of immune function across
multiple diseases. Severe burn injury is a devastating trauma with significant immune …

Background Previous reports individually identified different factors that predict death after
burns. The authors employed the multi-center American Burn Association's (ABA) National …

Background Burn injury in elderly patients can result in poor outcomes. Prognostic
nutritional index (PNI) can predict the perioperative nutritional status and postoperative …

Improvement in burn survival has shifted the focus of burn care from beyond merely
preserving life to improving the quality of life for burn survivors. Healthy psychosocial …

Severe burn injury is a devastating form of trauma that results in persistent immune
dysfunction with associated morbidity and mortality. The underlying drivers of this immune …

Background Among burn patients, research is conflicted, but may suggest that females are
at increased risk of mortality, despite the opposite being true in non-burn trauma. Our …