Timing of the thermographic assessment of burns
| Autor: | M.I. Liddington, Peter G. Shakespeare |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Infrared Rays Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine medicine Humans Child Retrospective Studies Wound Healing Burn depth business.industry Infant Skin Transplantation General Medicine Middle Aged Surgery Fisher exact probability test Thermography Child Preschool Emergency Medicine Female Burns Nuclear medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Burns. 22:26-28 |
| ISSN: | 0305-4179 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0305-4179(95)00076-3 |
| Popis: | The thermographic assessment of burns using infrared imaging has previously been shown to be a useful aid in the estimation of burn depth. In this study, thermographic images of burns, obtained from 65 patients over a 4-year period, were reviewed. An infrared transparent, water-impermeable membrane was used as a wound cover to abolish evaporative cooling artefacts. Single images were obtained from patients with burns to various parts of the body, excluding the hands. A significant change in the temperature of deep burns was observed between days 2 and 3 after injury (chi-square, P < 0.01; Fisher exact probability test between days 2 and 3, P < 0.01). The results of this study suggest that thermography of burns, to assess depth, should be performed within 3 days following the injury. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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