Surgical and psychiatric profile of patients who self-harm by burning in a regional burn unit over an 11-year period.

Introduction: Patients admitted to hospital for deliberate self-harm by burning (DSHB) provide a challenge for medical, surgical and psychological management. We retrospectively reviewed all the patients admitted to a Scottish regional burn unit with DSHB over an 11-year period to assess demographics and outcome.

Methods: Ward admission data were used to identify DSHB patients admitted to the South East Scotland regional burn unit in Livingston, UK between 2002 and 2012, as well as a control group of accidental burn patients.

The no-drain, no-quilt abdominoplasty: a single-surgeon series of 271 patients.

Background: Recent innovations in abdominoplasty include progressive tension "quilting" sutures or Scarpa fascia preservation to limit the risk of seromas and hematomas. No-drain abdominoplasty with progressive tension sutures has been well documented. The authors describe outcomes in patients undergoing abdominoplasty with a modified surgical technique (including sub-Scarpa fascia fat preservation) and no use of drains or progressive tension sutures-the "no-drain, no-quilt" abdominoplasty.