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Trying to gather resources for standardized or widely accepted assessments used in the rehabilitation portion of burn care.

Hi, I'm a registered nurse and I'm doing a master in person in critical condition - major burn.

Working at a prehospital mobile medical team and emergency department of a trauma center and burn center in Lisbon, Portugal and would like to know if anyone has literature on the importance of continuity of care from the scene of the incident to burn unit. Is there any study that confirms gaps in treatment / care of these patients from the crash site until the burn unit through the emergency room?

I have been awarded a travel fellowship to the United States to look at what nutritional care is being delivered to patients with wounds (burns to pressure ulcers), with the aim of enhancing care back in Britain. Particular areas of interest are; use of steroids, estimating nutritional requirements, feed/products used to meet nutritional needs, protocols in place e.g. bowel, emergency feeding regimes and trace element/glutamine supplementation.

I am currently in Tennessee but have flexibility in my itinerary to visit hospitals and practitioners who would be willing to let me shadow their burn/wound dietitian for 2-3 days.

Other places I have on my itinerary are;

San Francisco October 26th-14th Nov

Texas (Galveston) 23-25 November and Houston 25th-29th November

New Orleans 30th-4th December 

Orlando 5-12th December

Open week before flying home out of Orlando on 19th December.

Please get in touch if you would be interested in working together. I hope to put forward my findings to the next British Burns Association and American Burns Association Conference for 2017.

I search studies that use the the opsonophagocytic index in burn patients.

I am about to start a research project on nursing compliance regarding burn wound care. However, I found several articles regarding varying aspects of wound care, but no clear aspects for burn wound care or its clinical pathways based on evidence. Does anyone know of any articles or how to set up a new clinical pathway based on the best clinical evidence?

I found some years before some information about this property of DMSO. I worked in a company that sells DMSO for animals in Brazil and did some experience with colleagues in some animals, it works wonderful!

I wrote one paper about one case that I used it in a Horse´s necrosis in tongue but was unaccepted because there is enough Bibliography about the theme!

would like to know if anyone has done research on wound sterilization by using honey, specifically manuka honey

To evaluate the effectiveness of any topical formulation for antimicrobial activity, I think one should determine the drug level in sub-eschar fluid in the case of burn, or wound. So, how to do it, and what equipment used in that case?

In particular surrounding patient adherence, wearability and comfort. 

I need to know what the FDA guidelines are to implement something?

I need to know if legislation can make holistic medicine as a part of a belief system so that more holistic approaches can be used in hospitals?