Blood platelets in severely injured burned patients.
Unbelievable decrease of blood-platelet in the severely burned patients during the treatment of skingrafting caused two patients to unexpected death. From the records of changes of platelet number, a certain 'platelet curve' was made. By observing the curve, our treatments of skingrafting were carried out during the stable period and from then on we had no death cases.
Takashima
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Takashima Hospital, Tottori-ken, Japan.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000473:pathology; D002056:Burns / Q000097:blood* / Q000601:surgery; D004906:Erythrocyte Count; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010976:Platelet Count; D012016:Reference Values; D016038:Skin Transplantation