Acta chirurgiae plasticae
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Acta chirurgiae plasticae · Jan 2006
Case ReportsReconstruction of facial burn sequelae utilizing tissue expanders with embodiment injection site: case report.
Although highly specialized burn centers have significantly reduced mortality rates following extensive total body surface area burns, survivors are often left with grotesque facial disfigurement. Hypertrophic scars and tissue defects are the most common cause of functional and aesthetic problems in the head and neck region. Plastic surgeons use full-thickness or split-thickness skin grafts, pedicled flaps, free flaps, transplantation of bone or cartilage and tissue expansion. ⋯ The patient was treated utilizing multiple tissue expansion. Facial animation has retained and facial integrity has been aesthetically restored and, with the use of make-up, it is near normal in social settings at conversational distances. The tissue expansion technique is advantageous in facial reconstruction because it makes it possible to resurface even wider defects with neighboring skin, similar in colour and texture, and superior to skin obtained elsewhere.
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Acta chirurgiae plasticae · Jan 2002
Ensuring prehospital care in thermal injuries: experience from an explosion in a textile factory.
The objective of this work was to inform about the performance of the rescue service, in collaboration with other members of an integrated rescue system, in responding to an event in which several subjects suffered burn injuries. Proper organization of the work by a doctor of the rescue group at the site of the explosion, the work of the rescue service dispatchers, and the coordination of the activities of the different rescue teams are the prerequisite for the successful avoidance of the sequelae of mass disasters.
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Infection still remains one of the major problems in burn treatment. The authors investigated the occurrence of burn wound pathogens in burn wound biopsies and/or semiquantitative wound surface off-prints. ⋯ One of the explanations can be the increasing rate of early surgical treatment methods of deep burns. The results were in accordance with similar studies from other burn centres.
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Acta chirurgiae plasticae · Jan 2000
A simple, cost effective, innovative method of securing burns dressing.
An easy, simple way of securing the burns dressing has been described. This is achieved by using an ordinary office stapler and staple pins. The use of long, encircling gauze bandages for fixation of burns wound dressings around the torso and extremities, is eliminated. This article describes the use of this innovative, cost effective, quick, easy and simple method of fixation of burns wound dressings.