Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
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Syncope is a common condition that may lead to serious injuries including burns and head injury. To date, here has been no specific discussion of syncope and burns in the literature. A retrospective case-note review of consecutive patients admitted to a Tertiary Burns Centre over a 3.5-year-period was conducted. ⋯ The mean size of the injury in syncopal patients is slightly larger than the general burns patients (8.4%) but the length of stay is doubled. This is partly related to surgery being delayed due to investigation of the syncope episode. Focused investigations should reduce both the overall length of hospital stay and the number of investigations.
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High frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) improves gas exchange while providing lung protective effects during the ventilation of patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The purpose of this study was to review our experience with HFOV in adult burn patients with oxygenation failure secondary to ARDS. ⋯ HFOV was safe, and was highly effective in correcting oxygenation failure associated with ARDS in burn patients, and can be successfully used as an intra-operative ventilation modality for burn patients.
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To investigate the rate of elongation provided by multiple subcutaneous pedicle rhomboid flaps. ⋯ The results of this experimental study show that multiple subcutaneous pedicle rhomboid flaps promise to be a good alternate technique in the treatment of long contracture bands in terms of rate of elongation and simplicity.