title: Healing the Burn: Advances in Burn Treatment Technology Aim to Save Lives, Lessen Pain and Scarring.
abstract: When brothers Jamie and Glen Selby, aged 5 and 7, arrived at the Shriners Burns Institute in Denver, Colorado, in July 1983, more than 97% of their skin had been destroyed by a fire they had accidentally started while playing in an abandoned house. The boys were so badly burned that their outlook was grim-a 6-year-old friend who was also in the fire died from his injuries?but Jamie and Glen were lucky. Not only did they survive, but they were also some of the first patients to benefit from a new burn treatment nicknamed test-tube skin.
authors.forename: Summer E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002056:Burns / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000517:prevention & control; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009779:Occlusive Dressings; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control; D017768:Skin, Artificial; D014945:Wound Healing