Model System:

Burn

Reference Type:

Journal

Accession No.:

J78265

Journal:


Lancet

Year, Volume, Issue, Page(s):

, 388, 10052, 1427-1436

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Abstract:

Improvements in acute burn care have enabled patients to survive massive burns that would have once been fatal. Now, up to 70 percent of patients develop hypertrophic scars after burns. Patients with these massive burns have extensive scarring and contractures, itch, and pain. They are dissatisfied with their appearance and experience restricted movement, itch, and loss of function for many years. The greatest unmet challenges in burn rehabilitation relate to decreased quality of life and delayed reintegration into society resulting from post-burn scar. In this, the third article in a series on burn injury in which metabolism and inhalation injury were examined, the authors discuss current strategies for burn wound and scar management, and identify areas where more research is needed to reduce post-burn scarring and improve burn survivors’ rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

Author(s):


Finnerty, Celeste C., Jeschke, Marc G., Branski, Ludwik K., Barret, Juan P., Dziewulski, Peter, Herndon, David N.

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