Obese patients in a burn care unit: A major challenge

Burns

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1738-1742

  Liodaki, Eirini ^a   Senyaman, Özge ^a   Stollwerck, Peter Leonard ^b   Möllmeier, Dirk ^c   Mauss, Karl L ^a   Mailänder, Peter ^a   Stang, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Hornheide Specialist Hospital   (Germany)

^c BG Trauma Hospital Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burn care unit; Burns; Obesity; Obesity in burn care unit

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BURN; BURN INFECTION; BURN UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROGNOSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; SEPSIS; THERMAL INJURY; WOUND HEALING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BURNS; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; BURN UNITS; BURNS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922059082     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2014.04.016     Document Type: Article

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