Thermal and Metabolic Balances in Severe Burns (Bilans Thermique et Metabolique Chex les Grands Brules)

The findings shown relate to research carried out for one year on cases selected from among the most characteristic patients, and the report is submitted in two parts: Part One concerns the thermal and metabolic studies carried out at the bed of the patient during the acute phase of shock. A number of original techniques were developed. Part Two concerns studies carried out on a severely burned, scarred patient and have a direct effect on basic human thermal regulation. Indeed, the severely burned patient when cured presents for the thermophysiologist a semiexperimental situation allowing study of thermoregulatory responses with a subject showing considerable exclusion of receptors and peripheral effectors. Furthermore, the thermal tests carried out can have clinical interest at the same time contributing data concerning the quality of the neoformed skin. Trans. from Centre de Recherches du Service de Sante des Armees, Paris. Report (France) n18 Feb 75.