The National Burn Care Review estimates that a quarter of a million people present to burn treatment centres in the UK each year. A burn injury is first and foremost an injury to the skin. However, the visible skin injury is only one component of a disease process that has life-threatening systemic and metabolic effects remote from the site of injury. There are three phases to recovery from a burn injury:
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Nguyen et al. (2006) studied this question.