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| Felicia N WilliamsSummaryAffiliation: East Carolina University Country: USA Publications
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The leading causes of death after burn injury in a single pediatric burn centerFelicia N Williams
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA
Crit Care 13:R183. 2009..Despite these advances, death still occurs. Our aim was to determine the predominant causes of death in burned pediatric patients in order to develop new treatment avenues and future trajectories associated with increased survival...- Long-term persistance of the pathophysiologic response to severe burn injuryMarc G Jeschke
Shriners Hospitals for Children, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e21245. 2011.... - Burn size and survival probability in paediatric patients in modern burn care: a prospective observational cohort studyRobert Kraft
Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA
Lancet 379:1013-21. 2012..This study was designed to identify the burn size associated with significant increases in morbidity and mortality in paediatric patients... - What, how, and how much should patients with burns be fed?Felicia N Williams
Department of Surgery, Shriners Hospital for Children and University of Texas Medical Branch, 815 Market Street, Galveston, TX 77550, USA
Surg Clin North Am 91:609-29. 2011..This review focuses on the more recent advances in therapeutic strategies to attenuate the hypermetabolic response and its postburn-associated insulin resistance... - Impact of anesthesia, analgesia, and euthanasia technique on the inflammatory cytokine profile in a rodent model of severe burn injuryAhmed M Al-Mousawi
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Shock 34:261-8. 2010..Standardization across all experiments that are compared and awareness of these findings are essential for those investigating the pathophysiology of inflammation in animal models... - Is there a difference in clinical outcomes, inflammation, and hypermetabolism between scald and flame burn?Robert Kraft
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 12:e275-81. 2011..The aim of the present study was to determine whether there is a difference in degree of inflammation, hypermetabolism, endocrine and acute-phase response, and clinical outcome between pediatric patients with scald and flame burns... - Changes in cardiac physiology after severe burn injuryFelicia N Williams
Shriners Burn Hospital for Children, The University of Texas, Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
J Burn Care Res 32:269-74. 2011..Ejection fraction was within normal limits for 2 years. Cardiac stress persists for at least 2 years postburn, and the authors suggest that attenuation of these detrimental responses may improve long-term morbidity... - Nutrition in burns: Galveston contributionsNoe A Rodriguez
Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77550, USA
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 35:704-14. 2011..Here, the authors provide nutrition recommendations gained from prospective trials, retrospective analyses, and expert opinions based on the authors' practices in Galveston, Texas, and Vienna, Austria... - The use of exenatide in severely burned pediatric patientsGabriel A Mecott
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA
Crit Care 14:R153. 2010..We hypothesized that exenatide would decrease plasma glucose levels post-burn to levels similar to those achieved with IIT, and reduce the amount of exogenous insulin administered... - Glucose control in severely thermally injured pediatric patients: what glucose range should be the target?Marc G Jeschke
Shriners Hospitals for Children, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Galveston, TX, USA
Ann Surg 252:521-7; discussion 527-8. 2010..To determine which glucose levels are associated with improved morbidity and mortality in thermally injured patients... - Propranolol decreases cardiac work in a dose-dependent manner in severely burned childrenFelicia N Williams
Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA
Surgery 149:231-9. 2011..Four-hundred six patients with burns >30% total body surface area were enrolled and randomized to receive standard care (controls; n = 235) or standard care plus propranolol (n = 171)... - Effects of exercise training on resting energy expenditure and lean mass during pediatric burn rehabilitationAhmed M Al-Mousawi
Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77550, USA
J Burn Care Res 31:400-8. 2010..Therefore, the use of exercise conditioning as a safe and effective component of pediatric burn rehabilitation is advocated... - The hypermetabolic response to burn injury and interventions to modify this responseFelicia N Williams
Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
Clin Plast Surg 36:583-96. 2009.... - Insulin increases resistance to burn wound infection-associated sepsisGerd G Gauglitz
Shriners Hospitals for Children, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
Crit Care Med 38:202-8. 2010..This study was designed to determine the ability of insulin to improve outcome following a Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound infection in a rodent model of severe burn injury...