This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Burn injuries can be both physically and psychologically challenging – putting burn survivors on a challenging path to recovery that ...

The American Burn Association has established 10 criteria that warrant transferring a burn-injured patient to a specialized burn center for treatment: An understanding of emergency burn care is a must ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A new burn gel could enhance treatment and recovery of burn victims and it could also change the way patients are cared for on the scene of medical emergencies. In the United ...

A newly approved medicinal cream made from pineapples could be a "game-changer" for burn patients, doctors say. At Stony Brook Medicine’s burn center in New York, doctors recently started using ...

The idea is huge, and the benefits are big for burn patients. Spray on skin, called RECELL, is now approved for both adults and children, sparing them the unnecessary pain of dozens of skin grafts. UC ...

Not all wounds require surgery. The size and depth of the patient’s wound will determine if they need surgery and which surgery is most appropriate. The majority of burn surgery procedures are skin ...

Supplementing the diet with glutamine didn't improve outcomes for second- and third-degree burn patients, the randomized RE-ENERGIZE trial showed. Multiple daily doses of enteral glutamine didn't ...

The six patients from Hawaii’s New Year’s fireworks blast are in stable condition and expected to survive, according to the doctor in charge of treating them at a specialized burn center in Arizona.

AURORA, Colo. — Medicine is often very serious business. But sometimes, it's practicing surgical skills on a piece of fruit. “Put it at an angle, probably 30 degrees,” Dr. Cameron Gibson instructed ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Five patients who were severely injured in a New Year’s fireworks explosion in Aliamanu are making “really great progress” in Arizona. Six survivors were initially flown to ...