Topic
Escharotomy
About: Escharotomy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 158 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2115 citations.
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TL;DR: The treatment of hand burns requires the interdisciplinary teamwork of surgeons, physio- and occupational therapists, psychologists, motivated health care personnel and consequent treatment strategies.
127 citations
TL;DR: A systematic review of published literature pertaining to LOS prognostication in thermal burns demonstrated that %TBSA and age are the best predictors of LOS in published literature.
121 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of literature regarding intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) in severely burned patients, and the use of plasma and hypertonic lactated resuscitation may prevent IAH or ACS.
91 citations
TL;DR: The complications were more severe and common in the high-voltage group, while longer hospital stays and more complex surgical procedures due to the greater depth of burns were also observed in this group.
81 citations
TL;DR: Escharectomy using an effective enzymatic debriding agent is potentially an adequate, simple, fast and effective procedure to treat BICS, it has the added benefit of burn debridement without surgical escharotomy.
Abstract: Background:In patients with deep circumferential burns, adequate resolution of burn-induced compartment syndrome (BICS) is achieved by surgical escharotomy. Surgical escharotomy is traumatic, may cause considerable blood loss, does nothing toward debridement of the burn wound, and entails possible m
80 citations
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Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2016 | 7 |