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Severe Burn Injury in a Swine Model for Clinical Dressing Assessment
Published on: November 6, 2018
[Clinical characteristics and diagnosis of sepsis in pediatric burn patients]
1State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Institute of Burns, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China.
Insights
Pediatric burn patients frequently develop sepsis, a serious complication with higher mortality than in adults. Understanding these differences is crucial for effective treatment.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric critical care medicine
- Burn injury management
- Infectious diseases in children
Abstract:
Pediatric burn patients account for more than 1/3 of the inpatients in the same period, and its incidence surpasses that of burn patients in other age groups. However, it brings about much difficulty to treat pediatric burn patients complicated by sepsis, which brings a significantly higher mortality than that of the adult. Moreover, the physiological characteristics, development of organs, drug metabolism, and body response to burn injury in children are obviously different from those of the adult. Therefore, it is clinically important to understand the clinical characteristics of sepsis in pediatric burn patients in order to improve the diagnosis and treatment of this ailment.
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