title: Initial experiences with surgical treatment of deep burns at a USSR children's burn unit.
abstract: Thirty-eight consecutive children with deep burns who underwent early burn wound excision and grafting are reported from the 6th Surgical Department and the All-Union Pediatric Burn Center, Children's Hospital no.9, Moscow, USSR. Early excision represents a radical departure from previously employed expectant treatment. Infection rate fell from 25-48 per cent to 15 per cent. Two children died during a time period when, based on prior experience, seven to eight children would have been expected to succumb. With additional experience with this technique, results should improve even further.
authors.affiliation: 6th Surgical Department, Children's Hospital no. 9, Moscow, USSR.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Budkevich
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Remensnyder
mesh_terms: D002053:Burn Units; D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology; D014586:USSR