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Moffatt LT, Madrzykowski D, Gibson ALF, Powell HM, Cancio LC, Wade CE, Choudhry MA, Kovacs EJ, Finnerty CC, Majetschak M, Shupp JW. Standards in Biologic Lesions: Cutaneous Thermal Injury and Inhalation Injury Working Group 2018 Meeting Proceedings. J Burn Care Res 2020; 41:604-611. [PMID: 32011688 PMCID: PMC7195554 DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irz207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
On August 27 and 28, 2018, the American Burn Association, in conjunction with Underwriters Laboratories, convened a group of experts on burn and inhalation injury in Washington, DC. The goal of the meeting was to identify and discuss the existing knowledge, data, and modeling gaps related to understanding cutaneous thermal injury and inhalation injury due to exposure from a fire environment, and in addition, address two more areas proposed by the American Burn Association Research Committee that are critical to burn care but may have current translational research gaps (inflammatory response and hypermetabolic response). Representatives from the Underwriters Laboratories Firefighter Safety Research Institute and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Fire Research Laboratory presented the state of the science in their fields, highlighting areas that required further investigation and guidance from the burn community. Four areas were discussed by the full 24 participant group and in smaller groups: Basic and Translational Understanding of Inhalation Injury, Thermal Contact and Resulting Injury, Systemic Inflammatory Response and Resuscitation, and Hypermetabolic Response and Healing. A primary finding was the need for validating historic models to develop a set of reliable data on contact time and temperature and resulting injury. The working groups identified common areas of focus across each subtopic, including gaining an understanding of individual response to injury that would allow for precision medicine approaches. Predisposed phenotype in response to insult, the effects of age and sex, and the role of microbiomes could all be studied by employing multi-omic (systems biology) approaches.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lauren T Moffatt
- Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
| | - Heather M Powell
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Research Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, OH
| | - Leopoldo C Cancio
- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, TX
| | - Charles E Wade
- Center for Translational Injury Research (CeTIR), Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
| | - Mashkoor A Choudhry
- Department of Surgery, Burn & Shock Trauma Research Institute, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University, Maywood, IL
| | - Elizabeth J Kovacs
- Department of Surgery, Division of GI, Trauma and Endocrine Surgery, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora CO
| | - Celeste C Finnerty
- Departments of Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Burns Hospital, Galveston TX
| | - Matthias Majetschak
- Departments of Surgery and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
| | - Jeffrey W Shupp
- Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
- The Burn Center, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC
- Department of Surgery, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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