The Birmingham Burn Centre archive: A photographic history of post-war burn care in the United Kingdom

Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Joseph HardwickeNaiem Moiemen

Abstract

The Medical Research Council Burns and Industrial Injuries Unit at the Birmingham Accident Hospital pioneered civilian burn care and research in the United Kingdom during the post-war years. A photographic archive has been discovered that documents this period from 1945 to 1975. The aim of this project was to sort, digitize and archive the images in a secure format for future reference. The photographs detail the management of burns patients, from injury causation and surgical intervention, to nursing care, rehabilitation and long-term follow-up. A total of 2650 images files were collected from over 600 patients. Many novel surgical, nursing, dressing and rehabilitation strategies are documented and discussed. We have chosen to report part of the archive under the sections of (1) aseptic and antimicrobial burn care; (2) burn excision and wound closure; (3) rehabilitation, reconstruction and long-term outcomes; (4) accident prevention; and (5) response to a major burns incident. The Birmingham collection gives us a valuable insight into the approach to civilian burn care in the post-war years, and we present a case from the archive to the modern day, the longest clinical photographic follow-up to date.

References

Feb 1, 1977·Journal of Clinical Pathology·K Bridges, E J Lowbury
Sep 1, 1995·Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries·J C Lawrence
May 1, 1953·The British Journal of Surgery·D M JACKSON
Jul 12, 1952·British Medical Journal·S SEVITTE J L LOWBURY
Mar 23, 2011·Journal of Burn Care & Research : Official Publication of the American Burn Association·Menedimos GeomelasChristian Ottomann
Feb 5, 2014·Archives of Disease in Childhood·A M KempS A Maguire

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Jan 18, 2016·Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries·Joseph Hardwicke
Aug 31, 2018·Journal of Infection Prevention·Christina R Bradley, Gaj Ayliffe
Dec 10, 2020·Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries·P QueruelJ Leclerc

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