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Burn medicine has made rapid advances in the last few years. Along with the introduction of
new techniques and increased survival rates has come a realization that many burn patients …

Destroying the skin, the burn threatens the limits between the self and others. It induces a
breakdown in the life which outcome deals with the history of every patient and his psychic …

Skin damage resulting from severe burn injuries is often widespread and quite deep. In
addition to the organ lesion, there is also psychological damage. Subsequent scar …

Objective To examine factors predicting psychiatric morbidity, taking into account the full
range of psychiatric disorders before and after burn injury. Methods A cohort of 107 patients …

Patients consecutively treated for burn injuries for four or more days during 1994 were
examined one year after admission by a plastic surgeon, a specialist in rehabilitation …

115 patients with facial and neck burns were assessed for the presence and severity of
psychological morbidity. Various manifestations of such disorders and their predisposing …

In the case of the burn patient in whom the catastrophe is so great, clinicians sometimes lose
sight of the fact that patients have many special subjective fears that are hidden by the major …

Improved survival rates for patients with major burn injuries and the consistent finding of
significant long-term psychologic disability among survivors of burn trauma call for a …

Abstract Low, JF. 2007. ItГs Not Just a Burn. Physical and Psychological Problems after
Burns. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala …