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Filter by:Burn injuries are a prevalent problem. Actually, in Chile the Ministry of Health has recorded 6435 hospital burns and has reported 569 deaths from this cause. The specific mortality rate for burning in Chile was 4.5 per 100,000 inhabitants per year. Survival in extensive burns has progressively improved, thanks to advances in understanding the pathophysiology of the burn and its more aggressive treatment. This requires effective prehospital treatment, transportation, resuscitation, support of vital functions and repair of the skin cover. Much of the procedures performed in large burns require general anesthesia. Being Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) with propofol an alternative that would have advantages over inhalational anesthesia, as a decrease in postoperative nausea and vomiting and produce less environmental pollution 3 and the antihyperalgesic effect of propofol. Within TIVA - Target Control Infusion (TCI) - uses infusion systems that incorporate PK-PD models for predict the dose of drug required to reach a certain concentration in the target organ. The formulation of a PK model that considers the variables of this group of patients, such as: degree of injury, inflammatory state and compromised body surface; associated with general variables such as: age, weight and nutrition, it would allow to reduce the predictive error in this population, thus improving the dosing of these patients when using TCI. Given the lack evidence on the PK-PD of propofol is this group of patients burned, has led to raise the development of this study that seeks to develop a PK-PD model that fits them.
The aim of this study is to determine whether wound edge eversion, achieved by careful placement of dermal sutures, improves the cosmetic outcome of operative wounds closed on the head or neck.