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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Burns and Scalds
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for burns and scalds.
Reviewed April 2012
8 Resources Found
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| Title: | Interventions for treating phosphorus burns |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Phosphorus is a chemical element sometimes used in a military or industrial context. Phosphorus burns resulting from military or industrial injuries are chemical burns that can be fatal. Although rare, these burns are serious, often very deep and painfu... |
| Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Title: | Topical negative pressure (TNP) for treating partial thickness burns |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Topical negative pressure (TNP) therapy is the application of negative pressure across a wound to help the wound to heal. In this instance, the pressure is used to help the drainage of excess fluid, reduce infection rates and increase localised blood fl... |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Little evidence that burns patients benefit from hyperbaric oxygen therapy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Burns are very common, sometimes fatal, and have a high impact on the wellbeing of those affected. Recovery is often slow and complicated by infection and scarring. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a treatment designed to increase the supply of oxyge... |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | Are colloids more effective than crystalloids in reducing mortality in people who are critically ill or injured |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Trauma, burns or surgery can cause people to lose large amounts of blood. Fluid replacement, giving fluids intravenously (into a vein) to replace lost blood, is used to try to maintain blood pressure and reduce the risk of dying. Blood products, non-blo... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Dressings for treating superficial and partial thickness burns |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Superficial burns are those which involve the epidermal skin layer and partial thickness burns involve deeper damage to structures such as blood vessels and nerves. There are many dressing materials available to treat these burns but none have strong ev... |
| Date: | May 2008 |
| Title: | Interventions for promoting smoke alarm ownership and function |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Many people are killed or injured by house fires each year. Fires detected with smoke alarms are associated with lower death rates. This review found that programmes to promote smoke alarms increased smoke alarm ownership and function modestly, if at al... |
| Date: | Sep 2007 |
| Title: | Insufficient evidence so far to support the community approach to burns and scalds prevention |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Multi-strategy, community-based interventions are widely promoted for reducing injury rates. The efficacy of this approach is difficult to assess and there have been few research studies of good quality. The current review sought to review studies evalu... |
| Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Title: | Lidocaine for pain relief in burn injured patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There are no clinically relevant randomised controlled trials showing that burns patients benefit from intravenous lidocaine for pain relief. Burns are very common, sometimes fatal, and the pain associated with such injury is one of the most difficult t... |
| Date: | Mar 2007 |
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