Advancing Burn Care Leads to Better Burn Care
13 Total 2012 ABA Abstracts Accepted for Presentation at the annual meeting in Seattle


The Shriners hospital submitted  13 abstracts to the American Burn Association describing various patient care observations, techniques and procedures, new programs and performance improvement initiatives. We recently learned that all 13 abstracts were accepted  - a 100% acceptance rate!
The abstracts were authored by many different disciplines with diverse experience in abstract writing. This year’s abstracts also comprised a wide spectrum of practical bedside topics ranging from burn prevention, sleep, nursing and wound care, nutrition, infection control and rehabilitation, as
well as describing some of our new programs like the Remember Me program and the Journal Club.  Please join us in congratulating our successful ABA abstract authors/coauthors and let us know if you want to begin a clinical research project in 2012


1. Multi-center Testing of Burn Prevention Teaching Tool for Amish Children
   Mary Rieman and Richard Kagan
2. Acute Burns of the Palm: Is Early Splinting Necessary?
   Mary Dougherty, Patti Sharp and Richard Kagan
3. Amish Burn Wound Ointment and Burdock Leaf Dressings: Assessments of
Antimicrobial & Cytotoxic Activities    Mary Rieman, Alice Neely, Steven Boyce,
   William Kossenjans Paula Durkee, Jack Zembrodt, Barb Puthoff an Richard Kagan
4. Remember Me Program: Bridging the Gap between the Hospital and School
   Dan Dunlap, Susan Arnold and Richard Kagan
5. Retrospective Exam of the Effectiveness of Zolpidem for Sleep in Pediatric
Burn Patients with a Known History of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
   Stephanie Cronin, Michele Gottschlich, Lacy Gose and Richard Kagan
6. The Successful Use of a Bridle: A New Way to Wrangle a Pediatric Nasal Feeding Tube
   Angela Hardy, Debbie Harrell, Theresa Mayes and Richard Kagan
7. Long-Term Follow-up Fracture Incidence in Children Receiving Vitamin D
Supplementation during the Acute Phase Postburn
   Theresa Mayes, Michele Gottschlich, Carmen Brunner, and Richard Kagan
8. The Predictive Value of Nutritional and Inflammatory Indices in Pressure
Ulcer Development in Pediatric Burns
   Theresa Mayes, Angela Hardy, Michele Gottschlich, and Richard Kagan
9. The Effect of Healing Touch on Sleep Patterns of Pediatric Burn Patients
   Lois Cone, Michele Gottschlich and Richard Kagan
10. Comparison of Sleep Parameters Obtained by Actigraphy and
Polysomnography during the Rehab Phase Postburn
   Michele Gottschlich, Theresa Mayes, Chris Allgeier, and Richard Kagan
11. Journal Club Promotes Clinical Research, Continuing Education and
Evidence-based Practice    Michele Gottschlich, Laura Fowler and Richard Kagan
12. A Performance Improvement Initiative to Determine the Impact of Increasing
the Time Interval between Changing Centrally Placed Intravascular Catheters
   Alice Neely, Mary Rieman, Angela Hardy and Richard Kagan
13. Distinct Phenotypes of Deep vs. Superficial Keloid Fibroblasts in
Keloid Skin Substitutes Transplanted to Mice
   Dorothy Supp, Jennifer Hahn, Kathryn Glaser, Kevin McFarland, and Steven Boyce