Burn patient wound infection

Accelerated healing of severely dr y skin, cracked skin, and minor burns To reduce skin wound healing time and risk of infection Follow-up skin treatment for patients undergoing radiation therapy or otherdrying/burning medical therapies... 

Considerable selenium losses in wound exudates following severe burns have been recorded, and supplementation of a mixture of selenium, zinc, and copper leads to a reduction in respiratory infections." Supplementation, even in apparently selenium-adequate individuals, has some immune function stimulatory effects, including improvement in natural kfller cell activity and increases in IL-2 receptor expression." It has been speculated that the increased infection rates in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients may be related to selenium depletion and this may even influence the progression from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positivity to the AIDS syndrome. " ... 

A general guideline for the estimate of calorie requirements of burned children is 60 calories per kg per day plus an additional 30 calories for each 100 cm of burned area. Burned children are often anorexic, have delayed gastric emptying, and develop diarrhea with duodenal tube feeding. Severe malnutrition is therefore a frequent complication (Blocker et al., 1955 Levenson et al., 1945 Sutherland and Batchelor, 1968) of patients with burn injury and is associated with protein breakdown,delayed wound healing and infection which further increase caloric demands. 

In a randomized prospective clinical study involving 30 patients, with each group of patients having comparable bum wound size, depth and location, the wounds were treated with either a nanosilver dressing or a gauze soaked in 0.5% silver nitrate solution. The frequency of burn wound sepsis was shown to be less in wounds treated with nanosilver than in those treated with silver nitrate. Furthermore, secondary bacteremia arising from infected wounds was also less frequent [49]. As well as bum wounds, there is now increasing evidence for the use... 

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