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Project BurnCase

Exact documentation is the basis for comparability of medical and scientific studies. The postulated requirements of medical institutions for documentation and accuracy absorb a lot of time and work of surgeons. BurnCase is a software system that will simplify and improve diagnosis, medical treatment and documentation of human burn injuries, thus alleviating the large variations among surgeons regarding approximation of size and depth of burn injuries. As a three-dimensional simulation system, BurnCase improves surface determination by calculating region surfaces up to a precision of one cm². This improves the average variation from 50% without software support to less than 5%, limited by the precision of the surface transfer onto the virtual model. The intuitive user interface allows documentation of diagnosis and operations and supports the user by providing guidelines for entering complete datasets. The data is gained through the graphical interface allowing a much faster and intuitive access to stored information.

Once the selections have been stored in the database, calculations can be applied in order to evaluate standard indices of burn injuries. For professional documentation of diagnoses it is necessary to encode affected body regions (ABSI, Lund and Browder Charts, ICD10/ICD9, ICF, DRG, etc.). An underlying database stores all entered case studies so that it will be possible to perform comparisons of burn cases and animation sequences of the healing process of single wounds or whole bodies. When used as centralized burn accident registration service, a huge knowledge base of burn diagnoses and consequent medical treatment will emerge. This knowledge base will allow medical advices and diagnosis support for any kind of burn accidents, and it will consequently improve and support the primary diagnosis process of burn accidents. Thus, an enormous reduction of time and costs of medical burn treatment will be reached.

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