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Celebrate the close of #ABA52 by joining us for the closing celebration, Across the Seven Seas! Attend the party in your best sea-inspired attire and enter to win our costume contest for the best individual and team costumes. An after party with a live DJ will follow with a private bar and late night snacks. Don’t wait, register today!
Calling Burn Fellows, Residents, and Medical Students interested in a career in burns! The ABA will be hosting a Burn Fellowship Breakfast on Friday, March 20 in Orlando. Learn more and register today!
The Star
A new computer game which turns treatment rooms into fantasy worlds is helping young burns patients at Sheffield Children’s Hospital cope with their treatment.
This innovative application transforms the treatment room into a virtual environment to help children and young people recovering from burn injuries.
The idea is to distract patients while they’re being treated and it is one of the first times that an augmented reality app has been used in this way.
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Creates a temporary skin layer on any wound that bio-mimics the structure of a natural skin, allowing the patient to shower after 24 hours. MORE
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BioSpace
Burn injuries remain a significant health burden in civilian, first responder, and military settings. Despite major advances in care over the past 25 years, morbidity and mortality remain high, possibly exacerbated by current burn resuscitation strategies that employ large-volume crystalloid administration. Fluid overload early after burn injury constitutes a major risk factor for development of pneumonia, acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS), multiorgan failure, and death. The major objective of this study is to evaluate INTERCEPT plasma as a safe and effective resuscitation fluid in patients with major burns.
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The Times of Israel
A team of burn and plastic surgery specialists from Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel, traveled to Haiti in January, where they delivered and operated the country’s first medical laser. The laser, donated by the New Jersey-based nonprofit Burn Advocates Network, is primarily used to treat pediatric patients suffering from catastrophic burns, a major health crisis in the Caribbean nation.
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WNYT-TV
As many as 10,000 people in the United States die each year as a result of burn-related infections. That's because the most severe burn, third-degree, extends through every layer of skin.
Without that protective covering, the body is open to infection, which can lead to sepsis.
Such devastated skin may not be able to regenerate because the cells needed for repair have been destroyed.
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Explore the use of EpiBurn® dehydrated Human Amnion/Chorion Membrane Allografts in the treatment of burn injuries.
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WMTV
UW Hospitals will open a new Burn and Wound Center next month.
The $5.8 million dollar facility can hold eleven patients for extended stay treatments of up to three months.
The physical space is double the size of the current Burn and Wound Center, which only has seven beds.
Dr. Lee Faucher, the Director of the UW Health Burn and Wound Center, says there are several different amenities all housed together, making it easier for both patients and staff.
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WKYC
For burn victims, one moment can change the rest of their lives.
Thanks to a new ‘game-changing’ technology, patients are on the road to a much smoother recovery.
Director of MetroHealth Medical Center’s Comprehensive Burn Center, Dr. Anjay Khandelwal, says burns are probably one of the most significant severe injuries that someone can sustain.
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Psychiatric Times
Fears about the overprescription of opioid analgesics and the opioid epidemic have resulted in initiatives to try to get physicians to prescribe these more judiciously. However, concerns about whether these will result in patients needlessly suffering untreated or undertreated pain have been raised.
Unfortunately, many lay people and even many health care providers still believe that opioids are always the optimal treatment for all forms of pain and there are no good alternatives to their use.
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KY3
The bright red light from a laser travels along a patient's scar tissue, turning the brownish skin into a white color that looks like tire tracks.
The procedure is the resurfacing of damaged skin being done by Mercy's new Fractional CO2 Laser that's actually creating new wounds in old scar tissue.
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By Keith Carlson
 In healthcare, it can generally be agreed that one of the central pillars of the delivery of high-quality patient care is communication. It can also be readily agreed that communication is a central pillar of both inter- and intra-team cohesion and relationships. If this is truly the case, then why does communication break down so often and what can we do about improving it in the interest of staff satisfaction and retention, as well as the satisfaction of patients and their loved ones?
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Journal of Burn Care & Research
Triaging burn patients is a daunting task because burn injuries are rare; this inexperience leads to uncertainty in treatment and referral algorithms. Our regional burn center’s catchment area includes eight states. Outlying facilities consult via telephone through the medical center’s transfer center.
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As the official publication of the American Burn Association, the Journal of Burn Care & Research is the only U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the treatment and research of patients with burns. Access to full-text articles is included with an ABA membership. Click here to read the latest content!
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Burns Journal
The relationship between procalcitonin level and postive-blood culture results in febrile patients with critical burns is evaluated.
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis is used to evaluate the accuracy of procalcitonin in diagnosing bloodstream infection.
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