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PSEUDOMONAS VACCINE AND HYPERIMMUNE PLASMA IN THE TREATMENT OF THE SEVERELY BURNED PATIENT (A PROGRESS REPORT)
Author(s) -
Feller Irving
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1968.tb14752.x
Subject(s) - pseudomonas , medicine , incidence (geometry) , pseudomonas aeruginosa , microbiology and biotechnology , intensive care medicine , biology , bacteria , mathematics , genetics , geometry
S ummary This progress report demonstrates a pseudomonas vaccine and hyperimmune plasma used in treating 61 patients with burns involving a minimum of 20 percent of the body with full‐thickness (third degree) loss of 40 percent total injury (partial thickness and full‐thickness). The incidence of septicemia had decreased and mortality due to pseudomonas septicemia, when it does occur, has been greatly reduced.