Delayed cooling of an acute scald contact burn injury in a porcine model: Is it worthwhile?

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 729-734

  Rajan, Vasant ^a   Bartlett, Nita ^a   Harvey, John G ^a   Martin, Hugh C O ^a   La Hei, Erik R ^a   Arbuckle, Susan ^b   Godfrey, Craig ^a   Holland, Andrew J A ^a,b  

^a Division of Surgery   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING WATER; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; FIRST AID; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; SCALD; SWINE; ANIMAL; BIOPSY; BODY TEMPERATURE; BURN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLD; DISEASE MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BODY TEMPERATURE; BURNS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLD TEMPERATURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 69249219300     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e3181ac059b     Document Type: Article

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