[Characteristics of the wound process in patients with burns treated by tube hyperalimentation]

Time course of burn wound healing was studied in 32 patients with severe thermal trauma during tube hyperalimentation (TH). Similar study was conducted in 20 patients of the control group who did not receive TH. Early inclusion of TH in the complex of therapeutic measures stimulated some of the links of burn wound histogenesis: the formation of the demarcation swelling and rejection of the necrotic tissue occurred sooner, the leucocytic-macrophagal reaction was activated, and granulation and epithelialization processes were intensified. Thus, the use of the TH method in patients with burns makes it possible to conduct active surgical tactics for restoration of the lost skin area successfully as a result of which they recover within a shorter time than the patients of the control group.