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As 2019 comes to a close, ABA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of Burn News Headlines a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 3.
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ScienceBlog.com
From Sept. 6: Immediately following severe burns, bacteria reach the wound from different sources, including the patient’s skin, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tracts and health care-related human contact. Within the wound, bacteria multiply, establish an infection and move from the infected burn wound into the bloodstream, causing serious complications like sepsis, multiple-organ failure and death.
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Journal of Burn Care & Research
From Nov. 15: Competence in healthcare is a recognized expectation by consumers. In 2018 following an extensive review and consensus-building process, burn nursing practice competencies were published. Clinical nurse leaders were called upon to use these published competencies in practice as a basis for the requisite knowledge and skills needed in the care of the burn-injured individual. In 2019 at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association, nurses from four US burn centers reported on their center's incorporation of the competencies within their educational nursing curriculums.
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Medical Daily
From March 8: Scientists have developed a new technology that can print human skin, layer by layer, to cover and treat large wounds or burns faster than traditional treatments.
A team from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) created the mobile skin bioprinting system that uses a patient's own cells to produce skin tissue that will directly cover wounds, EurekAlert reported.
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Winona Daily News
From July 5: In looking for an “explosive” topic for the July Fourth holiday, a recent photo report from the June 20 New England Journal of Medicine provided the perfect example with pictures of an e-cigarette explosion in a 17-year-old’s mouth. It happened in March 2018 in rural Utah. His parents were in the house when they heard a loud pop. They thought it was noise from an electric circuit breaker.
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Becker's Healthcare Information Technology
From July 19: A machine learning model developed at the University of California Davis was able to quickly and accurately predict acute kidney injury in burn patients, a common complication occurring in around 30 percent of severe burn cases.
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Boston Herald
From Oct. 18: Burn specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital are the first in the world to successfully use live-cell, genetically engineered pig skin to temporarily close a burn wound in a human patient — but the breakthrough has drawn opposition from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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WCBE-Radio
From July 19: Ohio State University's Medical Center is introducing a new treatment for burn victims that reduces pain and recovery time with spray-on skin cells.
Doctor Ian Valerio of the Burn, Wound and Trauma program says surgeons take a postage stamp-size piece of skin and place it in a special solution, which breaks it down into its components.
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Science Direct
From Aug. 30: The federal government may appeal a $12.3 million verdict they were ordered to pay to the family of a young boy whose face was severely burned four years ago in a botched surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
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Inside Edition
From June 21: Sabrina Miller couldn't understand what was happening to her daughter, Kaleigh, when horrific burns and blisters began appearing on her skin. The mom had applied copious amounts of sunscreen on Kaleigh before she went outside to play in the sun, so she was shocked by what happened. As it turned out, Kaleigh had suffered what's known as "margarita burn," a skin condition that develops when certain chemicals that are often found in citrus fruits like limes cause increased sun sensitivity.
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The Gainesville Sun
From July 26: The new 27-room unit is a substantial upgrade from the previous eight rooms the hospital had to treat patients for burns, skin disorders and those requiring treatment following reconstructive surgery, officials said.
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