The Journal of Burn Care & Research Podcast

The companion episode to JBCR Volume 46, Issue 3, includes a brief summary of select articles from the issue, interviews with authors discussing their research, and some thoughts on the prevention and management of burn scars.

Dr. Victoria Miles hosts, and shares an in depth conversation with Dr. Jason Heard about his article from this issue examining the concept of "severity" in burn injuries.

In this supplemental podcast, we review a series of articles from JBCR Volume 45 Issue 4 including articles addressing diabetic foot burns, a novel nano-fiber based wound dressing, management of perineal burns, use of an intravascular-catheter-based temperature regulation system and an interview with the lead author on an article examining the impact of food deserts and food swamps in urban burn care.

Dr. Romanowski talks with Drs. Julie Caffrey and Sheera Lerman about their article on suicidality in burn survivors. Dr. Romanowski talks with Gretchen Carrougher and Diana Tenney about their article in this issue looking at "living well".

Dr. Romanowski reviews 3 articles from issue 3, looking at a study comparing patient outcomes at verified burn centers vs other settings, burn unit construction, and suicidality in burn survivors.

Gretchen Carrougher – Gretchen J Carrougher MN, RN is a Research Nurse Supervise and Burn Model System coordinator at the University of Washington.

Diana Tenney – Dianna Tenney is a burn survivor (“thriver”), a contributor to the Boston Burn Model System, and president of the Burn Survivors of New England

Julie Caffrey – Julie Caffrey, DO, MS is an associate professor plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is an attending surgeon at the John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and director of the Johns Hopkins Burn Fellowship.

Sheera Lerman – Sheera Lerman, PhD is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins and a rehabilitation psychologist at the Johns Hopkins Burn Bayview Center.

Article synopses are at beginning. Interview with Lerman and Caffrey starts at 43min, survivor discussion at 1hr3min.