[Deep electrothermal burns].

Five-year experience in the treatment of patients with severe electrotrauma are analysed. They accounted for 3.1% of the total number of patients with burns.

[Potassium levels in the blood in burns].

The authors summarize and describe 18-years' experience in the management of patients with burns and determination of the potassium ion content in blood plasma, urine, erythrocytes, and burn exudate. They established that the abnormal potassium content is most hazardous during shock and toxemia and that the changes must be immediately corrected, otherwise complications occur in the course of the burn disease which may prove irreparable and cause death of the patient. The main principles of blood potassium+ control consisted in preventing loss of potassium through the wound and the kidneys and restoring its level by infusion.

[Lipid metabolism in patients with burn disease during nasogastral tube hyperalimentation].

A study was made of lipid metabolism in burn disease patients who received prolonged nasogastral feeding. The main alterations were discovered in phospholipid fractions of blood plasma and red blood cell membranes. In patients receiving nasogastral feeding, the alterations returned to normal more rapidly than in those who did not receive such a feeding.

[Treatment of frostbite].

The article shows that treatment of frostbites in a special medium with controlled temperature and humidity makes the time of treatment shorter and prevents complications characteristic of such a trauma. The main purpose of such exposures of the injured areas is to achieve mummification and to make the operation as early as possible. The mummification of the soft tissues began within 5-8 days after trauma.