"After The Fire"; The Legacy of College Dormitory Fire Twenty Years Later.

In January of 2000 the team at The Burn Center at Saint Barnabas was confronted with what is to date, the single largest burn mass casualty incident since its doors opened in 1977. Looking back through history at other catastrophes shows that, even in the wake of these "landmark events", the lessons learned remain, so that perhaps all was not in vain. 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 19 While this fire took place more than twenty years ago, its legacy is still being felt today.

Developing and implementing a plan for large-scale burn disaster response in New Jersey.

For the first time in modern history burn centers must face the reality of having to potentially care for a staggering number of injured patients. Factors such as staffing, patient acuity and bed availability compel medical professionals to regularly examine various aspects of their respective healthcare delivery systems, especially with regards to how these systems should function for mass casualty response. The majority of burn care in New Jersey is provided by one designated burn treatment facility.

Foreign body aspiration in children: value of radiography and complications of bronchoscopy.

Purpose: The authors undertook a 10-year review of bronchoscopies for airway foreign bodies in children to test assertions in previous reports that (1) characteristic abnormalities in chest radiographs are important indicators of the need for bronchoscopy and (2) experienced operators incur negligible complications.

Methods: The medical records of 293 children who underwent bronchoscopies by experienced pediatric surgeons for suspected airway foreign bodies were reviewed for patient age, symptoms, duration of symptoms before bronchoscopy, prebronchoscopy radiographs, type of foreign body, anatomic location of foreign body, success of bronchoscopic removal, length of hospital stay, and complications.

Results: Of the 293 bronchoscopies, 265 showed airway foreign bodies.

Peripheral arterial missile embolization: a case report and 22-year literature review.

The present case report is that of an air pistol missile injury with perforation of a common femoral artery and subsequent arterioarterial embolization to the anterior tibial artery. Included in this report is a review and analysis of a 22-year experience in the vascular trauma literature with missile injuries resulting in cardioarterial or arterioarterial embolization. In-depth analysis of this collective literature review revealed small weapon caliber (79%), usually .