Evaluation of Burn Wound Infection in a Referral Center in Colombia.

 Burn wound infection (BWI) is the second most important cause of death in burn patients. There is currently limited data about the incidence and clinical presentation of BWI using quantitative techniques as quantitative biopsy culture (QBC) to prevent progress to burn wound sepsis (BWS).  This is a prospective cohort study of patients diagnosed with BWI, confirmed by QBC, from February 2018 to July 2019 at University Hospital of Santander (HUS).

Detailed neurovascular anatomy of the serratus anterior muscle: implications for a functional muscle flap with multiple independent force vectors.

A functional muscle free flap with multiple muscle segments that could be oriented independently to produce different force vectors would be beneficial in facial reanimation and upper extremity reconstruction. The serratus anterior muscle has this potential because two or more individual muscle slips can be transferred on a single vascular pedicle. Although serratus anterior muscular anatomy has been studied previously, little attention has been given to the intramuscular anatomy.