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ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages 3-17Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2017.09.018
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Severe burn injuries; Burn wound infections; Burn pain management; Scarring; Skin tissue engineering; Stem cells; Negative pressure wound therapy; Laser therapy for scarring
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Severe burn injuries are the most traumatic and physically debilitating injuries affecting nearly every organ system and leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Early bum wound excision and skin grafting are common clinical practices that have significantly improved the outcomes for severe burn injured patients by reducing mortality rate and days of hospital stay. However, slow wound healing, infection, pain, and hypertrophic scarring continue to remain a major challenge in burn research and management. In the present article, we review and discuss issues in the current treatment of burn injuries; the advances and novel strategies developed in the past decade that have improved burn management; and also, pioneer ideas and studies in burn research which aims to enhance bum wound care with a focus on burn wound infection, pain management, treatments for scarring and skin tissue engineering. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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