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Burn Center Patients at Risk for Upper Extremity Amputations Open

Danielle A. Thornburg, Steven Swanson, Philomene Spadafore, Areta Kowal-Vern, Kevin N Foster , et al. · 2021

Introduction Burn center patients present not only with burn injuries but also necrotizing infections, purpura fulminans, frostbite, toxic epidermal necrolysis, chronic wounds, and trauma. Burn surgeons are often faced with the need to amp…

Trauma Activation and Substance Use in an Urban Trauma Center Open

Derek Titus, Areta Kowal-Vern, John M. Porter, Marc R. Matthews, Philomene Spadafore , et al. · 2021

Background: Alcohol and drug screens in trauma patients are endorsed by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. The objective was to determine the characteristics and frequency of alcohol and poly-drug combinations in patient…

Complex Limb Salvage with Placental-Based Allografts: A Pilot Study Open

Danielle A. Thornburg, Areta Kowal-Vern, William H Tettelbach, Kevin N Foster, Marc R. Matthews · 2021

Background: Commercially available human placental amnion/chorion tissue allografts have been successfully used as protective treatment barriers for wounds and diabetic ulcers. Burn and traumatic limb injuries with exposed bone or tendon g…

Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections of the Male and Female Breast: A Literature Review Open

Areta Kowal-Vern, Daniela Cocco, Marc R. Matthews · 2021

Background: Within the spectrum of necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI), necrotizing fasciitis (NF) has been characterized by tissue and fascial necrosis with systemic toxicity. The objective was to determine and summarize the frequen…

Bronchoalveolar lavage and plasma Antithrombin and cytokines in inhalation and burn injury: a pilot study. Open

Areta Kowal-Vern, Andrew Dennis, Paul Bourdon, Larry E Casey, B.A. Latenser · 2020

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is initiated during the acute phase of thermal injury. The objective was to determine the SIRS impact on cytokine and Antithrombin (AT) levels in smoke inhalation and burn injury. This observa…

Prognostic Indicators for Upper and Lower Extremity Amputations in a Verified Burn Center Open

Danielle A. Thornburg, Scott D. Swanson, Yehia Elebrashi, Nicole Richards, Karen Richey , et al. · 2019

INTRODUCTION: Reconstructive surgeons are often faced with the need to amputate when limb salvage is no longer a viable option. Burn center patients present not only with burn injuries but also necrotizing infections, purpura fulminans, fr…

“Streets of Fire” revisited: contact burns Open

Areta Kowal-Vern, Marc R. Matthews, Karen Richey, Kathy Ruiz, Michael D. Peck , et al. · 2019

Background Pavement-street contact burns are rare. This study compared recent contact burns to those published in “Pavement temperature and burns: Streets of Fire” in 1995. The hypothesis was that there were a significantly increased numbe…

Hypochlorous Acid for Septic Abdominal Processes Using a Unique Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System: A Pilot Study Open

Marc R. Matthews, Asia N Quan, Anushi Shah, Carmen Tugulan, Beshoy Nashed , et al. · 2018

Background: Septic open abdomens occur in trauma, burn and surgery. Currently, multiple concentrations of hypochlorous acid solutions have effectively decreased the microbiotic burden in wounds. We hypothesized that Vashe®, a neutral hypoc…

Antithrombin in the treatment of burn trauma Open

Areta Kowal-Vern · 2016

Antithrombin (AT) is a natural anticoagulant with anti-inflammatory properties that has demonstrated value in sepsis, disseminated intravascular coagulation and in burn and inhalation injury. With high doses, AT may decrease blood loss dur…

Referee report. For: Toxic epidermal necrolysis [version 1; referees: 3 approved] Open

Areta Kowal-Vern · 2016

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