when the research began last July<\/a>, he said some very simple first aid education could dramatically improve outcomes.<\/p>\n“In an ideal world everyone would have access to state-of-the-art burns care, but we have to be realistic about what we can achieve,” he said.<\/p>\n
“In many parts of the world, oil, toothpaste and even dung are used to treat burns, worsening the injury and heightening the risk of infection.<\/p>\n
“By providing the sort of basic first aid education almost all of us in Britain have access to, we can prevent eminently treatable burns from becoming very serious injuries.”<\/p>\n
The best burn centres in the West can save patients with burns over 90% of the body’s surface area, while in low and middle income countries burns of over 40% are almost invariably fatal.<\/p>\n
Women are also more than three times as likely to suffer serious burns.<\/p>\n
But Prof Potokar said the nature of burn injuries varies from country to country.<\/p>\n
“In less wealthy countries open fires for cooking, as well as oil-fired heaters and lamps are a major problem, and one we’ve already been able to reduce by distributing solar lighting to replace paraffin lamps, and encouraging people to move to enclosed ovens,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But in transitional and rapidly evolving countries such as Bangladesh, India, and Ethiopia, a growing cause of burns is high-voltage electricity which have devastating effects often causing multiple limb amputations in both adults and children.”<\/p>\n
The ‘”basic burn care” project was funded through Hub Cymru Africa and the UK government’s Department for International Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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