Basic Problems in Burns

Surgery of the Burn Wound.- The tactics of necrectomy and grafting at the Prague Burns Centre.- Excision of acute burns with immediate meshed autografting.- Early excision of third-degree burned skin areas under bioptical control.- Survival of severely burned patients with intermediate duration skin transplantation and immunosuppression.- Epigard - a new synthetic wound dressing: Comparative clinical studies with porcine xenograft.- Temporary skin cover.- Trial of Epigard in the burned patient.- Synkryt (Syncover) - synthetic graft.- The use of xenografts as temporary coverage on mesh grafts in extensive burns.- Changes in evaporative water loss and hypermetabolism in burned patients after application of xenografts.- Primary excision of full thickness burns up to 40 P.C. of body surface followed immediately by micro- or meshgrafts.- Clinical experience with chorion-amnion grafts used as biological dressing.- Enzymatic debridement of burn necrosis.- Experience from five-year use of early surgery in deep burns.- New modification of the Mowlem-Jackson method.- Collagen foam as a biological burn dressing.- Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care.- Principles of burn resuscitation.- Anaesthesia for early excision of extensive full-thickness burns.- Anaesthesia and resuscitation in burned children.- Analgesia in the treatment of burns.- Ketalar in premedication of children.- General anaesthesia in experimental burn shock in piglets.- Infusion therapy of burns with dextran and Ringer lactate 2 1/2 years' results of a controlled trial.- Oral ingestion of an electrolyte solution as shock prophylaxis in burn patients.- Modified gelatine and polyvinylpyrrolidone for volume replacement in extensive burns - a comparative study.- Recommandation for a clinical conceptbased on experimental data for initial treatment of the burn shock.- Therapeutic role of escharectomies in the period of burn shock.- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in third degree burn wounds - a microangiographic study.- The value of hyper-pressure - oxygen in the treatment of burn disease.- Enteral tube feeding in burned children in the shock and toxicoinfection phase.- Criteria, principles and results of the treatment of burn disease.- Septicaemia.- Contemporary problems of infection in burns.- Contamination of burn wound in Prague Burns Center in 1969-1972.- Bacteriological examination of burn wounds by means of semiquantitative method.- Maximum tolerated doses of gentamicin and the sulfamethoxazoltrimethoprim-gentamicin combination in the therapy of severe infections in burned patients.- Frequency of septicaemia.- Phagocytic properties of leukocytes in burns.- Immunotherapy in burns.- The role of the reticuloendothelial system in burn infection.- A study on the appearance of auto-immune phenomena in burn patients and its clinical relevance.- Complement and acute burn trauma.- The epidemiology of burn wound sepsis in an intensive care unit.- Patterns of burn wound sepsis during the past 30 years.- Tables aiding differential diagnosis of burn sepsis.- Therapy of burns in children.- Warm air treatment of burns in the sterair unit.- Detection of endotoxin in human plasma using Limulus test.- Complications of the Burn Illness.- The sick cell syndrome in burns.- Acute functional and morphological alterations after scalding with special regard to the lung: an experimental study.- Respiratory complications in the early post burn period.- Renal disease in severe burns.- Immunoreactive insulin, somatotropin, renin, angiotensin II, ACTH and LH levels in severely burnedpatients.- Contemporary changes in the clinical presentation of the burn disease.- Production of the endogenous erythropoietin in burned rats and its influence by anaemisation and testosterone.- Icterus in burn illness.- Clinical picture of liver damage in burn illness.- Morphological findings in hepatic tissue of burned patients.- Treatment of respiratory insufficiency in burned patients.- The influence of burns on jaw and denture development.- Psychopathologic phenomena and their treatment in burns.- Author Index.