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Burn Survivor Stories: Children Getting Another Chance at Life

This month, a young Iraqi boy disfigured by a car bomb in Iraq came to Long Island, NY for surgery that could give him a chance at a normal life. Zeenabdeen Hadi, now four years old, was barely a year old when the blast burned part of his face down…

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Severe Burns and Smoke Inhalation From Sources You Can’t Control

The CBS television station in Keller, Texas reported last week on this story of severe burns on one family’s child and several other children, all of whom are in a special-needs class at their school: Nicholas Chaney’s parents trusted that he’s taken care of at school just like he is…

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Measuring Severe Burn Rates for Surfaces Found at Home and Work

An interesting, though very academic, paper was published recently about the ways that investigators can measure how quickly skin can receive painful second-degree burns as well as far more damaging third-degree burns from coming in contact different surfaces. At the top of the list of fast skin-burning surfaces was aluminum,…

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A Terrible Story That Offers Lessons in Fire Safety

In addition to the tragic shopping-mall and nightclub fires I detailed in my last blog entry on April 11, this next story should be a lesson to anyone about thinking of fire safety wherever you are. When at home, you simply must check all possible means of escape on a…

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Necrotizing Fasciitis and Third Degree Burns (Part II)

Risk factors for Necrotizing fasciitis: Trauma to the skin (minor or major). Burns Immunosuppression and imunosuppressive drugs such as prednisolone. Diabetes. chronic diseases such as chronic renal failue. Malignancies. Alcoholism and intravenous drug misuse. Obesity. Peripheral vascular disease. malnutrition. Age over 60 years. Varicella. Clinical features: There are local and…

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A Hot Debate About Fire Sprinklers in Homes and Condos

An article written for the Associated Press this past week covered a topic that every head of a household should know something about: A regulation calling for homes built after January 1, 2011 to install fire sprinklers. This rule in some areas has ignited a fight around the country between…

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