health

Burns are likely to continue to be a common form of accidental injury.
Better education as well as further research into burn treatment may
help to lower the number of injuries and deaths caused by burns. One
of the most important factors in lowering the rate in the last twenty years
is the increased use of smoke detectors. A major new area of research is
the development of skin substitutes for covering major burns instead of
using grafts taken from the patient’s own skin.