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Open versus closed management of burn wounds in a low-income developing country
- Source :
- Burns. 34:644-647
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- Over a 38 month period, 264 patients were admitted for management of burns at the Emergency referral hospital in the resource-poor West African country of Sierra Leone. 244 charts and records were available for review, and 196 met the study's inclusion criteria. For the first 27 months, 158 patients were treated with the closed method and for the last 11 months of the study, 86 patients were treated with the open (exposure) method. Overall, the open method had as good or better early outcomes than the closed method, at significantly lower costs, and is the recommended treatment for burns in this particular type of environment.
- Subjects :
- Male
Low income
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Referral
Medically Underserved Area
Developing country
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Sierra Leone
Sierra leone
Young Adult
medicine
Humans
Young adult
Child
Developing Countries
Retrospective Studies
Skin care
business.industry
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
Skin Care
Bandages
Surgery
West african
Treatment Outcome
Emergency medicine
Emergency Medicine
Female
Burns
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03054179
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Burns
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....30c535df867c8c1f2d753686fdbce1e0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2007.09.013