Dr  David Goltsman, Prof Peter Maitz, A/Prof Peter Haertsch, A/Prof Peter Kennedy 1Burns Unit, Concord Repatriation General Hospital Abstract: Objective. To determine the most appropriate sites and rationale for escharotomy incisions following full-thickness burns to the trunk. Methods.  High-speed infrared...
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Dr  David Goltsman, Prof Peter Maitz, A/Prof Peter Haertsch, A/Prof Peter Kennedy 1Burns Unit, Concord Repatriation General Hospital Abstract: Objective. To determine the most appropriate sites and rationale for escharotomy incisions following full-thickness burns to the trunk. Methods.  High-speed infrared...
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Dr Goltsman David, Dr Masuma Sarker, Prof Peter  Maitz, Mrs Anne Darton, A/Prof Peter Kennedy 1Burns Unit, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW Abstract: Aim. To assess the cause, incidence and outcome of self-inflicted burns, and to examine how these...
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Dr Goltsman David, Dr Zhe Li, A/Prof Peter Haertsch, A/Prof Peter Kennedy, Prof Peter Maitz 1Concord Hospital – Burns Unit Abstract: Clinical assessment of burn depth is frequently inaccurate. This unit has shown that in fact overestimation of a burn...
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Dr Goltsman David, Dr Zhe Li, A/Prof Peter Haertsch, A/Prof Peter Kennedy, Prof Peter Maitz 1Concord Hospital – Burns Unit Abstract: Clinical assessment of burn depth is frequently inaccurate. This unit has shown that in fact overestimation of a burn...
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Dr Goltsman David, Dr Zhe Li, A/Prof Peter Haertsch, A/Prof Peter Kennedy, Prof Peter Maitz 1Concord Hospital – Burns Unit Abstract: Clinical assessment of burn depth is frequently inaccurate. This unit has shown that in fact overestimation of a burn...
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Dr Alicia Heald1, Professor Michael Muller1 1Royal Brisbane And Women’s Hospital Abstract: Last year we reported a case series of 5 adults who were severely burned when using biofuel heaters. All were refilling the heater at the time of injury...
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Dr Sivasuthan Goutham1, Dr Timothy  Bussoletti1, Dr Jason Brown1 1Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Unit, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Abstract: Objectives Unfractionated heparin has been the mainstay of chemoprophylaxis, however enoxaparin has increasingly been used in high-risk surgical patients....
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Dr Sivasuthan Goutham1, Dr Timothy  Bussoletti1, Dr Jason Brown1 1Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Unit, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Abstract: Objectives Unfractionated heparin has been the mainstay of chemoprophylaxis, however enoxaparin has increasingly been used in high-risk surgical patients....
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Radhianie Djan1,3, dr. Zainul  Halim1, dr. Aditya Wardhana1,2,3 1Burn Unit, Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, 2Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, 3Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia Abstract: Background: Many countries remain unclear on...
  • 2 July 2017
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