@article{ref1,
title="'Lethal' burns. A progress report",
journal="Archives of surgery (1960)",
year="1978",
author="Monafo, W. W. and Robinson, H. N. and Yoshioka, T. and Ayvazian, V. H.",
volume="113",
number="4",
pages="397-401",
abstract="Sixteen consecutive patients, nine of whom also had inhalation injury, had burns over 72% body surface area or more. The expected death rate was 94%. In fact, all of the eight patients still alive after 48 hours survived. The early deaths were primarily due to inhalation injury, the treatment of which remains an unsolved problem. A mixture of cerium nitrate and silver sulfadiazine was used for topical wound antisepsis. The wound flora was sparse: 447 of 814 wound-surface cultures were sterile; Gram-negative bacteria were recovered in 13%. This efficacious wound bacteriostasis appeared primarily responsible for the absence of late death.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-0010",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}