The benefit of using cold water to reduce the effect of a burn has been a first aid measure for over two thousand years. Hugh Wright MA BM BCh MRCS is researching the simple but unknown question of why cold reduces the burn effects so that a cream or pill…
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Fadi Issa MA BMBCh MRCS DPhil is looking at ways of helping patients with extensive burns that need skin grafts. He’s looking at Treg cells, a type of immune cell, that can stop the body rejecting a skin graft. His work holds vast promise in transplants of all kinds. He…
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Catrin Griffith BSc MSc in Bristol is using a PROMs questionnaire to measure how patients cope with both the pain and the psycho-social effects of being burned. Her findings will help the NHS effectively treat patients by better understanding their emotional and physical needs. She currently works at the Centre…
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Anthony Roberts OBE writes:
With nothing else to do during Covid, I started writing my memoirs.
Volume I ‘Scholarship Boy to...
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Fifteen, Twenty, Twenty FiveA story about why we should cool burn injuries
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A father saved his son from scarring from a scalding cup of tea by immediately running his son’s legs under cold water for over...
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