Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies

Francis EC

Publications

• Case Report
  “Deep Freeze” for Muscular Strain Causing a Deep Burn
  Author(s): Francis EC and Shelley OPFrancis EC and Shelley OP
  
  Cryogenic burns are rare. They are therapeutic challenge to physicians in the absence any clear accepted management guidelines. We present a patient who was referred to our National Burns Unit having sustained a full thickness burn after the application of a brand name sub-zero producing aerosol spray. These are advocated as a method of rapid analgesia for muscular strain. To our knowledge this is the first reported case in the English literature... Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0673.1000154

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