1. Treatment of partial thickness burns of the face with Acticoat7™
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Jakob Nedomansky, Gunther Fuchs, Alexandra Fochtmann-Frana, Christine Radtke, Alan Oramary, Werner Haslik, and Stefanie Nickl
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Reconstructive surgery ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Burn injury ,Scar revision ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,General Medicine ,Single Center ,Intensive care unit ,Dressing change ,law.invention ,Surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Bacterial colonization ,law ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business ,Partial thickness - Abstract
Summary Background The face is affected in more than 50% of patients with extensive burn trauma. Effective treatment is of importance to avoid hypertrophic scarring, functional impairment and social stigmatization. Material and methods All patients treated with Acticoat7™ due to superficial and deep partial thickness burns of the face between 2008 and 2017 at the intensive care unit (ICU) for burn trauma at the Department for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Medical University of Vienna were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were evaluated for the number of required dressing changes until complete re-epithelialization, bacterial colonization, potential complications and the need for primary and secondary surgery. Results A total of 100 patients were analyzed. It took a median dressing change rate of 1 (range 0–5) in the superficial partial thickness and 3 (range 1–11) in the deep partial thickness group. Conservative treatment of deep partial thickness wounds was possible in 79% and 17% of these patients required secondary scar revision. Although bacterial colonization of the wounds frequently occurred, wound infections were rarely observed. Conclusion Acticoat7™ is a valuable dressing for treating superficial and deep partial thickness burn wounds of the face in an intensive care unit setting. It enables extended time intervals between dressing changes without an increased risk for complications.
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- 2020