The local treatment of burns with antibiotics.

Ann Burns Fire Disasters

Plastic Surgery and Burns Therapy Operating Unit, ARNAS Civic Hospital, Palermo, Italy.

Published: September 2005

After presenting an analysis of the principal antiseptics used for the local treatment of burns, highlighting their toxicity and the limitations of their antibacterial effectiveness, we describe the therapeutic protocol used in our burns centre (where antibacterial treatment consists exclusively of antibiotics for both local and systemic use). We review the data regarding actual and predicted mortality, and mortality due to septicaemia during the years 2000-2003.

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