The Formation
of Burns Medical Therapy in the 21st Century
The history of burns therapy as a specialized
field of
research is less than a hundred years old. While humans have burned
themselves since the dawn of time, no systemic intelligent protocols
have been established to serve mankind in this regard.
Hippocrates did record burns treatment but his
methods were not described with any scientific basis.
Subsequently, no specialists in burns medicine
were
formed until after 1930. Research into burns pathogenesis had not
produced any impressive methods or materials for treating burns wounds
along physiologic lines.
Surgical
methods
saved lives but left patients disfigured and disabled. Surgery, while
representing a big step forward, treats the patients while doing
nothing to encourage regeneration of the skin.
Finally, at the end of the 20th century, Chinese
doctors invented burns
regenerative medicine and therapy, which offered an
entirely new therapy operating in compliance with principles of human
physiology.
Now, as we enter a new century and while we pause
on
that threshold, we all share the opportunity to cooperate and combine
the best of all approaches from the east and the west.
As
described above, the technology of the east, i.e. BRT
with MEBT/ MEBO, should be applied for all burns including muscle
burns; while for treating burns in the muscle layer, the
technology of
the west, i.e. surgical excision and skin
grafting therapy, should be applied.
As a whole, it can be called integrated east and west burns
therapy.
In the era of information, any new technology,
thinking,
method and material when produced, will immediately be known all over
the world and the information be shared.
New technology is no longer a legendary tree of a
doctor
that sheds coins when shaken, and the backward technique will no longer
be applied to produce tragedy.
We believe that in the 21st century, people will
make
greater progress in the field of burns medicine and the problems will
be completely solved as people succeed in the cloning of organs.
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