1. And about reports of calls telling a Dallas hospital to be prepared to receive burn patients before the fire erupted. 2. At Queen Victoria Hospital, for instance, therapists massage burn patients with oils from lavender plants and eucalyptus trees, a practice long used by aromatherapists. 3. Burn patients must still undergo several operations to cut away scar tissue that contorts their mouths or keeps their eyes permanently open or closed. 4. Burn patients, he said, were treated with antibiotic ointments, bandages and supportive care until the dead skin came off. 5. Burn patients experience similar muscle loss even when they are given extra protein. 6. Crispy critter, says slang sleuth Paul Dickson, began as emergency-room shorthand for a burn patient. 7. Evian therapy originally comforted burn patients in France. 8. Fifteen burn patients from Germany had pig skin grafts. 9. Grossman is the creator of the foundation, which helps burn patients with psychological and social concerns after they leave the hospital. 10. Infections, which doctors said begin to spread from the wounds by the end of the first week, are especially troublesome in burn patients. |