For instance, a smartphone application called EasyTBSA was created to provide a more accurate calculation of total body surface area (TBSA) burned using a body-part approach. A validation study ...

A new study published in the Annals of Surgery identified the optimal timing and surgical approaches for the first tangential ...

Another research effort developed multiple deep learning models specifically for estimating the percentage of total body surface area (%TBSA) burned. This study highlighted the challenges of ...

All six patients transferred to Arizona are intubated and in medically induced comas, according to the Arizona Burn Center.

Burns are a type of painful wound caused by thermal, electrical, chemical, or electromagnetic energy. Smoking and open flame are the leading causes of burn injury for older adults. Scalding is the ...

"It's just the way burn injury works, especially when you have large percent-of-total-body-surface-area burns like this," Foster said. The scars, and the physical limitations that come with them ...

Some of the victims have burns covering up to 90% of their bodies. "A large percent total body surface area burn like this is a life-changing, life-threatening, life-long injury," Foster said.