ALLMedicine™ Chemical Burns Center

May 18th, 2022 - To report demographic characteristics, types and grades of injury, regional distribution of injury severity, clinical findings, and long-term results of acute ocular chemical burns. Medical records of patients with chemical burns between 2010 and ...

May 17th, 2022 - The accommodations sector is one of the largest employers of immigrant and minority workers in the United States. Hotel housekeepers represent the industry's largest workforce while facing difficult work conditions, health hazards, and psychologic...

May 16th, 2022 - Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) is an over the-counter available astringent with oxidising and antiseptic property used by the dermatologists since ages. It is often used as compresses and baths for various exudative dermatoses. Its advantages incl...

Mar 15th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Chloropicrin is a soil fumigant used for its broad biocidal and fungicidal properties, primarily in high-value crops such as strawberries, peppers, onions, tobacco, flowers, tomatoes, and nursery crops. [1] John Stenhouse, a Sc...

Feb 18th, 2022 - Garlic is one of the most common medicinal plants used since ancient times to treat diverse diseases within several cultures worldwide. Nevertheless, this plant has the potential to cause chemical burns of the skin and mucosa. This report presents...

Jan 27th, 2022 - The experience of face and hand composite tissue transplantations reported in the international community have mainly concerned trauma patients. Feasibility and individual benefit have been demonstrated for these indications, in properly selected ...

Feb 26th, 2010 - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Nexagon® in subjects with Persistent Epithelial Defects (PED) originally caused by chemical burns.

Sep 25th, 2008 - The study is on patients with grade II-IV acute ocular chemical burns (Roper - Hall classification) in the first 2 weeks of injury. After topical anesthesia, all patients initially will receive first aid therapy; which included irrigation with nor...

Dec 13th, 2021 - Another grim milestone: COVID-19 deaths reached 800,000 in the U.S. (Reuters) Also according to Reuters, the U.S. count passed 50 million coronavirus cases as of Sunday. The unofficial U.S. COVID-19 toll from Johns Hopkins University as of Monday ...

Jan 7th, 2020 - Patients with seizures are placed at an increased risk for sustaining burn injuries, which may occur during common daily activities such as cooking, showering, and using heaters. 1 Although patients are warned of the risks of injury at the time of.

Oct 3rd, 2019 - Lung injuries from vaping probably result from direct toxicity or tissue damage caused by noxious chemical fumes, rather than from an accumulation of lipids in the lungs, pathology data suggest. "We were not surprised by what we found, regarding t...

Oct 3rd, 2019 - Lung injuries from vaping probably result from direct toxicity or tissue damage caused by noxious chemical fumes, rather than from an accumulation of lipids in the lungs, pathology data suggest. "We were not surprised by what we found, regarding t...

Jun 5th, 2019 - Symptoms of Ocular Chemical Exposure Signs and symptoms associated with ocular chemical exposures include erythema, pain, tearing, photosensitivity, eyelid swelling, foreign body sensation, changes in vision, and corneal clouding. 3,5,9,28 Specifi.