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BioSpace
Scientists have known for decades that electrical stimulation promotes healing of chronic wounds, such as diabetic ulcers and bedsores, but how it happens has been a mystery—until now.
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Healio
The biopharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt announced positive top-line results from its phase 3 clinical trial for StrataGraft regenerative tissue and plans to submit a biologics license application to the FDA in the first half of 2020.
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Explore the use of EpiBurn® dehydrated Human Amnion/Chorion Membrane Allografts in the treatment of burn injuries. Click here to learn more!
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Dermatology Advisor
Hypertrophic scarring is one of the long-lasting effects of acute burns. Because burn scar tissue has altered vascularization, structural changes, increased tension, and contour abnormalities that go deep beneath the damaged surface layers of skin, pain and functional impairment may continue long after the initial treatment has ended.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When a serious injury rendered a vineyard owner unable to tend to his grapes during harvest season, the nurses treating him stepped in to help.
Jack Walker suffered burns over 40% of his body and has been at WellStar Cobb Hospital since the incident, his wife said. So the nurses treating Walker decided to lend a hand. “Miss Carolyn has kind of become our adopted grandma,” burn unit nurse Carley Burleson said.
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Vericel
26 years ago, Mark was severely burned in a plane crash. Learn about his journey, including interviews with Mark himself as well as his surgeon, Dr. Rajiv Sood. Please see Important Safety Information at the end of the video, and visit Epicel.com for
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By Keith Carlson
 It’s been said that change is the only constant in the universe, and that also pertains to healthcare. Since the days of Hippocrates, Florence Nightingale, and many others, medicine and nursing have continued to morph, and those individuals and organizations willing to do so have also evolved apace. But for those who resist or fight change, becoming an irrelevant dinosaur is the likely result. Are you and your organization willing to play along?
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Journal of Burn Care & Research
The burn wound is central to all aspects of burn care. The size, depth, and condition of the burn wound directly impacts fluid resuscitation, hypermetabolic response, immune system dysfunction, and predicted survival. Optimal care of the burn wound requires specialized facilities and experienced burn nurses and surgeons, all of which are in limited supply under normal circumstances.
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Burns Journal
Patients with thermal burns become zinc deficient due to exudative losses, increased urinary excretion, and reduction of carrier proteins which results in impaired immunity, wound healing and glucose control. Previous trials have demonstrated improved wound healing utilizing fixed zinc supplementation, but none have assessed the potential benefits associated with normalizing serum zinc concentrations.
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Plos One
In pediatric burns the use of systemic antibiotic prophylaxis is a standard procedure in some burn centers, though its beneficial effect on the infectious complications is debated. The present meta-analysis aimed at determining whether systemic antibiotic prophylaxis prevents infectious complications in pediatric patients with burn injuries.
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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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Bio-Concepts custom-made pressure garments are ideal for treatment of a wide variety of medical conditions including burn scar management, long-term management of primary and secondary lymphedema, and Sensory Processing Disorders.
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Journal of Burn Care & Research
Paediatric burn injuries are vulnerable to severe complications, most often infection, making prompt and precise diagnosis of bacterial bioburden vital to preventing detrimental consequences and optimizing patients’ outcomes.
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