Biomedical subjects

H N Robinson

Publications and source records attributed to H N Robinson.

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PubMed1978

'Lethal' burns. A progress report.

Sixteen consecutive patients, nine of whom also had inhalation injury, had burns over 72% body surface area or more. The expected death rate was 94%. In fact, all of the eight patients still alive after 48 hours survived. The early deaths were primarily due to inhalation injury, the treatment of which remains an unsolved problem. A mixture of cerium nitrate and silver sulfadiazine was used for topical wound antisepsis. The wound flora was sparse: 447 of 814 wound-surface cultures were sterile; Gram-negative bacteria were recovered in 13%. This efficacious wound bacteriostasis appeared primarily responsible for the absence of late death.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1977

The treatment of burned children.

Burn shock in infants and children is satisfactorily treated by the initial intravenous administration of balanced hypertonic sodium solutions; monitoring of plasma sodium and/or osmolarity permits necessary adjustment of the sodium concentration of administered fluids. This approach has been safe. Its principal advantage is in minimizing acute gains in body weight, which may be alarming otherwise, especially in children. Clinical and bacteriological data are presented indicating that cerium nitrate-silver sulfadiazine cream is a highly efficient topical antiseptic agent for both major and minor burn wounds and that it has low toxicity. Cerium nitrate-silver sulfadiazine cream can be readily employed in any clinical setting.

Adolescent↗