Major burns in adults: a practice review.

There are approximately 180 000 deaths per year from thermal burn injury worldwide. Most burn injuries can be treated in local hospitals but 6.5% require specialist burn care.

Is the use of a powered dermatome an aerosol-generating procedure (AGP)? Implications for personal protection against COVID-19 virus.

Introduction: Many healthcare workers have contracted SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic, many cases of which have resulted in severe illness and death. No studies have assessed the potential for powered dermatomes to generate aerosol, an essential technique in burns and plastic surgery. The primary aim of the present study was to capture video footage to illustrate the potential for a powered dermatome to generate significant spray and hence aerosol.

Necrotizing myositis: highlighting the hidden depths - case series and review of the literature.

Background: Necrotizing myositis (NM) is a life-threatening emergency. It causes focal muscle necrosis without abscess formation or extensive involvement of the overlying fascia and soft tissue. It is a clinical diagnosis requiring a high index of clinical suspicion.

Postsurgical Pyoderma Gangrenosum Versus Necrotizing Fasciitis: Can We Spot the Difference?

Background: Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare noninfectious cutaneous disease characterized by expanding areas of skin ulceration around necrotic centers with purulent debris. Exceptionally, it can be precipitated by surgery alone, and this entity has been described as postsurgical pyoderma gangrenosum (PSPG). Cases of PSPG in the literature are rare.

Osteophyte-induced rupture of a scalp tissue expander.

Tissue expansion is in widespread use for the reconstruction of congenital and acquired defects. Complications of tissue expansion are well documented, the most common being infection or extrusion of the expander. Although the complications associated with scalp tissue expansion are similar to those experienced elsewhere in the body, site-specific complications can occur.