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JOHN VAN DUYN, II, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1945;50(5):242-252.

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In spite of the enormous amount of work that has been done on the subject, the question of a specific toxemia in burns is not yet settled. There are at least six distinct attitudes to be found in the literature:

1. There is no true burn toxemia (Fender,¹ Lam²).

2. Infection can account for the whole picture of burn toxemia (Aldrich,³ Cruickshank,⁴ Marsh,⁵ McSwain,⁶ Wakeley,⁷ Siler⁸).

3. Hemoconcentration (secondary shock) can account for the whole picture of burn toxemia (Underhill and Kapsinow,⁹ Osterberg and others¹⁰).

4. Whatever burn toxemia really is, it cannot be explained solely on the basis of plasma loss and hemoconcentration (McClure,¹¹ Elkington,¹² Boyce,¹³ Harkins,¹⁴ Lee and Rhoads,¹⁵ Bosse and associates¹⁶).

5. Burn toxemia is a result of hepatic damage caused by anoxia, in turn a result of hemoconcentration and impaired . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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SYRACUSE, N. Y.

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