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Drug May Prevent Wasting Often Seen In Victims Of Burns And Auto Wrecks.
2001 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A widely used blood pressure drug shows strong potential for slowing the metabolic overdrive that makes patients waste away after severe burns and other major injuries, researchers say.
The long-recognized phenomenon stems from the body's fight to heal itself. It ramps up metabolic functions and quickens heart rate but ultimately overshoots, eating away muscle and bone and weakening the patient.
Skin grafts can dampen this hypermetabolism in burn patients, but scientists have also tested drugs such as insulin and anabolic steroids. Some show benefit, but none has worked well enough for general use.
In a study in the October 25, 2001, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas, tried propranolol on 13 children with bad burns and left 12 untreated to compare. The drug, one of a class known as beta blockers, checks the stimulating action of the hormone adrenaline and helps keep heart rates down in cardiac patients.
In the Texas experiment, the drug eased the children's heart rates an average of 20%. More significantly, the youngsters lost just 1% of muscle and bone mass over four weeks of ...
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...entitled "Bacterial infections in burn patients at a burn hospital in Iran" by Ekrami...Taneja2 indicated in their commentary burn patients are included in the special patient...elimination of skin integrity for the burn patients and facilitate the growth of burn wound...
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- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) November 16, 2005 700+ words
...struggling to treat meth-related burn patients who often don't have insurance...Along with insurance issues, meth burn patients are more likely to have a longer stay in the hospital than other burn patients and their hospital costs are significantly...
- Immunization Schedule Protects Burn Patients.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Vaccine Weekly February 21, 2001 700+ words
...According to a study from South Korea, burn patients will benefit from a three-dose vaccine...membrane proteins (OMPs) vaccine in burn patients," D.K. Kim and colleagues, Hallym...outer membrane proteins vaccine in burn patients," Vaccine, 2000;19(9-10...
- Immunization Schedule Protects Burn Patients.
- Newspaper article from: Immunotherapy Weekly Marble, Michelle February 21, 2001 700+ words
...According to a study from South Korea, burn patients will benefit from a three-dose vaccine...membrane proteins (OMPs) vaccine in burn patients," D.K. Kim and colleagues, Hallym...outer membrane proteins vaccine in burn patients," Vaccine, 2000;19(9-10...
- Burn patients in Africa die of shock or sepsis.(Critical care of burn patients...
- Magazine article from: CME: Your SA Journal of CPD Van Der Merwe, Elbie September 1, 2008 700+ words
...support a decline in burn-related injuries or deaths. Burn patients in Africa die of two general causes: early deaths as a result...the BICU should have competencies specific to the care of burn patients, including wound care. Equipment used in a BICU is the...
- Pediatric burn patients need vitamin D supplements.
- Newspaper article from: Drug Week February 13, 2004 700+ words
...rather than better," Klein said. Burn patients are known to suffer from a high incidence...to analyze vitamin D levels in adult burn patients. Nevertheless, Klein said there was...situation would be different for adult burn patients. Still, he said that more research...
- Cardiac monitor may aid critical burn patients.
- Newspaper article from: QI/TQM December 1, 2001 700+ words
Cardiac monitor may aid critical burn patients Necessary data obtained at reduced...to use the PiCCO system in treating burn patients. The monitoring system, manufactured...is increased in the critically ill; burn patients typically have a high bloodstream infection...
