Gastro-duodenal ulceration in burn patients - a review

Acute gastro-duodenal bleeding has been noted to occur in variety of clinical settings like major medical illness, postoperative patients, patients who have sustained major burns, traumatic patients and in patients with central nervous system disorders (comatose patients). These patients have one thing in common i.e. recent exposure to severe stress, leading to ulcer formation in stomach and duodenum and ultimately bleeding. The incidence and frequency of gastrointestinal bleeding and curling's ulcer in burn patients appears to be increasinPg in recent times. So this review of literature makes an attempt to demonstrate and support this hypothesis.