Progress in a Moscow children's burn unit: a joint Russian-American collaboration. Remensnyder, J P, Astrozjnikova, S, Bell, L, Budkevich, L, Buletova, A A, DiCarlo, J, Featherston, D, Johnson, L, Kolotukin, A, & Krassovsky, V Burns, 21(5):323–335, 1995. Place: ENGLAND ISBN: 0305-4179
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A joint Russian-American paediatric burn programme involving Childrens Hospital No. 9 in Moscow and Project HOPE in Millwood, Virginia emerged from the efforts of burn professionals from both countries in caring for a group of children seriously burned as a result of the train-pipeline catastrophe that occurred in June 1989 in the Ural Mountains. This paper describes the burn unit and its activities during the years 1985-93 and includes: (1) a general description of the physical and administrative structure of the unit; (2) the demography of burn admissions; (3) clinical activities; (4) a comparison of the clinical results of the years before the institution of the combined programme (1985-89) with those achieved during the first 4 years of the combined collaboration (1990-93). Among the important changes that have occurred since the onset of the combined programme are: (1) overall reduction in the crude burn mortality rate; (2) decrease in burn deaths in all burn size groups; (3) dramatic reduction in the length of stay of children with the deepest burns; (4) marked improvement in the take of skin grafts applied to burn wounds and an almost total elimination of complete skin graft failures.
@article{remensnyder_progress_1995,
	title = {Progress in a {Moscow} children's burn unit: a joint {Russian}-{American} collaboration.},
	volume = {21},
	abstract = {A joint Russian-American paediatric burn programme involving Childrens Hospital No. 9 in Moscow and Project HOPE in Millwood, Virginia emerged from the efforts of burn professionals from both countries in caring for a group of children seriously burned as a result of the train-pipeline catastrophe that occurred in June 1989 in the Ural Mountains. This paper describes the burn unit and its activities during the years 1985-93 and includes: (1) a general description of the physical and administrative structure of the unit; (2) the demography of burn admissions; (3) clinical activities; (4) a comparison of the clinical results of the years before the institution of the combined programme (1985-89) with those achieved during the first 4 years of the combined collaboration (1990-93). Among the important changes that have occurred since the onset of the combined programme are: (1) overall reduction in the crude burn mortality rate; (2) decrease in burn deaths in all burn size groups; (3) dramatic reduction in the length of stay of children with the deepest burns; (4) marked improvement in the take of skin grafts applied to burn wounds and an almost total elimination of complete skin graft failures.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {5},
	journal = {Burns},
	author = {Remensnyder, J P and Astrozjnikova, S and Bell, L and Budkevich, L and Buletova, A A and DiCarlo, J and Featherston, D and Johnson, L and Kolotukin, A and Krassovsky, V},
	year = {1995},
	pmid = {7546252},
	note = {Place: ENGLAND
ISBN: 0305-4179},
	keywords = {Adolescent, Burn Units, Burns, Child, Child, Preschool, Hospitals, Pediatric, Humans, Infant, Moscow},
	pages = {323--335},
}

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