The Efficacy of Onion Extract on the Prevention or Treatment of Scars: A Systemic Review.

Scars are common and debilitating outcomes of burn injury, with no current consensus regarding the gold standard in scar management. Non-invasive interventions such as silicone gels are popular adjuvant treatments due to ease of application. Onion extract (OE) has been proposed as a potential scar treatment modality due to its anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties.

Social Distancing or Socially Dividing? A Greater Proportion of Vulnerable Patients Admitted to a Metropolitan Burn Center During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Due to stay-at-home mandates and social distancing, we hypothesized the coronavirus disease 2019 global pandemic altered the epidemiology of burn injuries that presented to a single-institution, metropolitan burn center. A retrospective review of adult and pediatric patients admitted to the center during a 3-year period: 3/20/19-3/19/20 (pre-pandemic year), 3/20/20-3/19/21 (pandemic year 1), and 3/20/21-3/19/22 (pandemic year 2). Variables included patient demographics, burn injury, and hospitalization characteristics.