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Andrew Burd

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Allogenic skin in the treatment of burns.

Allogenic skin has had a major role in acute burns care for over 100 years. The principle source of allogenic skin is from cadavers. Allogenic skin provides the gold standard for temporary skin substitutes. The main drawbacks to its wider use are availability and disease transmission. The major obstacle to prolonged use is its immunogenicity. As more effective means are developed to ensure the supply and safety of allogenic skin and novel ways of circumventing the immunologic problems are developed, it is possible that allogenic skin may find a new role as a permanent skin replacement in future burns care.

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"Xenograft" dressing in the treatment of burns.

Biologic dressings (xenografts and allografts) are an integral part of modern burns care. They provide; reduction of pain and adherence without need for additional fixation; antibacterial action that is a function of its adherence; protection against physical trauma; appropriate heat and moisture retention. Allografts are more effective but supply may be severely restricted. Porcine skin is our standard dressing for partial-thickness burns; it also has a role in providing temporary coverage of full-thickness defects and for debriding burns/ulcers.

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Screening Internet websites for educational potential in undergraduate medical education.

This paper addresses the difficulty of finding suitable websites to support undergraduate medical students in learning key concepts and skills in plastic surgery in particular, and other areas of undergraduate medical education in general. Based on a model of the pedagogical elements contained in educational websites, the authors developed a short objective scoring system with five criteria. Pre-university students were used to find websites in plastic surgery. One hundred and fifty of those that were still in place after a year were evaluated using the objective scoring system. Sixty of these were then selected and were subjectively evaluated by final year medical students in terms of their perceived educational potential. There was only a moderate correlation between the objective and subjective scores. Our conclusion is that it does not seem possible to construct any objective system of medical website evaluation. The discussion of the results of this study focuses on the issues involved in finding suitable web-based material and the diversity between students. New strategies such as formally organized consortia involving agreements between medical schools may evolve.

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Surgical reconstruction of attempted suicide charcoal burns.

Burning charcoal in an enclosed space is now the second most-common method of committing suicide in Hong Kong. When the suicide is unsuccessful, the patients can still sustain extensive tissue destruction from both direct and indirect thermal burns. We report a series of three patients who sustained deep injuries that, after débridement, left exposed bones and joints needing acute coverage. Free tissue transfer was required in each case to close the wounds. This short series illustrates the extensive destruction that can occur from both contact burns and radiant heat injury and the reconstructive challenges that can result. Of particular note was that serial débridment was necessary in the radiant heat injury because of the evolving and more extensive nature of the wound.

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