Incidence and treatment of burns: a twenty-year experience from a single center in Germany.

Objective: To analyze trends in incidence and treatment of thermal injuries over the last two decades.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed our local single center database of patients with thermal injuries admitted to the burn intensive care unit (BICU) of the Cologne-Merheim Medical Center (University Hospital of Witten/Herdecke). The cohort was divided into two groups according to the decade of admission and the epidemiology and clinical course of the patient sample admitted during the period 1991-2000 (n=911) was compared to that of 2001-2010 (n=695).

Clinical profile of assault burned victims: a 16-year review.

Objective: Assaults by burning occur infrequently and are related to the social circumstances and demographics of each population. We aimed to explore the mechanisms, complications, morbidity and mortality associated with assault burn injuries admitted to the Burns Intensive Care Unit of Merheim University Hospital in Cologne.

Methods: A retrospective data analysis of a consecutive series of 1 243 burn patients between 1989 and 2004.

Cologne burn centre experience with assault burn injuries.

Objective: To evaluate demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with assault burn injuries.

Background: Assault by burning demonstrates a rare but severe public health issue and accounts for unique injury characteristics in the burn intensive care unit (BICU).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study involving patients with thermal injuries admitted to the BICU of a university hospital.