[On the key point in improving the level of burn treatment from the five aspects of PRIDE].
The "PRIDE"-five combined measures, including "protection of cell function and anti-shock treatment to reduce ischemic-hypoxic injury", "rehabilitation from early postburn stage", "inhalation injury treatment", "deep burn wound repair", and "enterogenous infection control", are key measures to improve the levels of burn treatment. The progressive advances in combined measures denoted as "PRIDE" have raised the burn treatment to a higher level and greatly elevated the survival rate. The degree of attention has also been raised from improvement in survival rate only to higher survival rate and better life quality with improvement in rehabilitation. Clinically however, many problems remain to be solved in the treatment of severe burn patients. Further basic and translational studies on "PRIDE" will be helpful to further improve the level of burn treatment.
Institute of Burn Research, Southwest Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China.
Yue-sheng
YS
Huang
D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans