Conservative treatment of minor and moderate burns

The authors present a review of domestic and foreign literature devoted to local conservative treatment of minor and moderate burns. Up to 80 % of patients seeking help for thermal trauma have minor and moderate burns. Rational, effective and painless local conservative treatment, which contributes to rather rapid independent epithelization of such thermal lesions, presents a topical problem. Burn wound repair depends on the method of local treatment. According to different authors, this process takes 6-14 days for minor burns and 21-42 days for moderate burns. In routine treatment, i.e. use of single-layered gauze dressings with antiseptics and additional drying (heat fans, air-fluidized support), the healing of minor and moderate burns is often complicated by the secondary wound deepening. It leads to treatment prolongation and rough scar formation. Modern synthetic interactive bandages, which create moist environment in the wound, are an effective means of local treatment of minor and moderate burns. However, their use is limited because of high prices for small bandages. A promising method of local burn wound therapy is a technique of treating burns in their own liquid medium under polyethylene film bandages. This method is considered to be simple and easy. Thus, the improvement and search for new methods of local treatment of minor and moderate burns is still an urgent problem.