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...Burns are always a major problem in naval warfare. Sailors work within enclosed areas where they are exposed to bomb flashes and hot oil. Of Naval casualties at Pearl Harbor, half were burn cases, whereas at nearby airfields burns accounted for only 2% or 3% of casualties. Dr. Pendleton does not claim the wax treatment is perfect, but he and his Mare Island colleagues think it is a big improvement...
Disadvantage of the wax treatment is that the unbandaged patient is usually an unpretty sight, even to case-hardened hospital attendants. This esthetic factor, Dr. Pendleton suspects, in part explains former neglect of the wax treatment...
...Debridement - the time-consuming cleansing and removal of dead tissues and blisters-is eliminated as the necessary first step in burn therapy. Dr. Pendleton believes that sulfa drugs now make debridement unnecessary and the wax can be safely sprayed on top of oil, dirt, charred clothing, etc. He also thinks that debridement may remove live tissues vitally needed to bridge over the destroyed areas. When burns are treated with wax film (which is washed away each day), a slow, gentle debridement takes place without injury to the growing cells...
...Mass treatment of the wounded is greatly expedited. The first day the wax was used at Mare Island, an orderly treated Dr. Pendleton's group of patients in an hour and a half, while in the next ward five nurses-using other methods-took four hours to fix the dressings on a like number of patients...
...avoids the pressure bandages applied, for example, in the British tulle-fras (wax-impregnated gauze) method. Dr. Pendleton contends that any sort of pressure injures the delicate skin cells...