Burns research

Clinical research focuses on the management and outcomes of patients with Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TENS); the effect of gender on mortality in burn patients; and fluid management and blood transfusion practices.

The Victorian Adult Burns Service at The Alfred provides the statewide service for adult patients with severe burn injuries.

Clinical research topics in 2015 have included gender differences in cytokine response to burn injury, troponin levels in patients with burns and the early microbiological profile of the burn wound.

A prospective trial is under way to test the validity of a predictive equation for dressing requirements, which will contribute to state disaster response preparation and planning. Laboratory research is focused on techniques for keratinocyte culture and tissue engineering for skin substitutes.

Postgraduate students

  • 3 PhD students
  • 3 Masters students

Publications

Pain assessment following burn injury in Australia and New Zealand: Variation in practice and its association on in-hospital outcomes

Tracy LM, Cleland H, Cameron PA, Gabbe BJ

(2021), Australas Emerg Care, 24(1), 73-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.auec.2020.07.007

Plastic surgical trainees' perspectives toward burn surgery in Australia and New Zealand: Changes in the last 17 years?

Sreedharan S, Cleland H, Lo CH

(2021), Burns, 47(8), 1766-72

DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2021.09.013

Association between gender and outcomes of acute burns patients

Perkins M, Abesamis GM, Cleland H, Gabbe BJ, Tracy LM

(2021), ANZ J Surg, 91(1), 83-8

DOI: 10.1111/ans.16426

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