Journal Reviews

Factors which predict the utilisation of plastic dressing clinics in paediatric burns

5 October 2015 | | General Plastic Surgery | Burns, Outpatient, Paediatric, Plastic Dressing Clinic

This paper seeks to identify which factors impact on the re-attendance rates at a paediatric outpatient service following a burn. A retrospective review of patients admitted to a single paediatric burns unit (Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh) over a...

Burns debridement: VersajetTM vs. conventional debridement

5 October 2015 | | General Plastic Surgery | Conventional debridement, Paediatric, Versajet™ hydrosurgery

A prospective randomised controlled trial was undertaken to compare conventional tangential burn wound debridement against the use of Versajet™ hydrosurgery in the treatment of partial thickness paediatric burns. Seventy-five children under the age of 16 were recruited for the study...