Dr. Saliba found and doctors globally confirmed that heparin maintains blood circulation and stops burn progression, relieving pain and reducing swelling, redness, and heat. No pain medicine is needed. Thus complications of narcotics and addiction were eliminated. Using heparin, initial burn size was the maximum size and thereafter the size and severity decreased. Fluid need was halved. Incisions to release swelling tissue were rarely needed. Using heparin first, the patients were not toxic, deaths were less, and appreciable healing of burns was evident. Therefore, the outdated initial nearly-total surgical removal of the burns under anesthesia with intubation which is akin to torture is unnecessary and eliminated. The blood loss, transfusions, and expensive artificial skins replacement need with initial surgery are eliminated. Infections are fewer, so antibiotic use and expensive messy painful topical sulfa cream use is less. Daily water baths containing antimicrobial agents with painful removal of dead tissue are stopped. Blood flow to blood deficient tissues is regularly restored. Enhanced healing in one-third usual time with smooth skin void of scars without movement-limiting contractures is the common result, often at one-tenth or less of current treatment costs. Treatment with heparin is humane. Many patients need no surgery. All other treatment methods, including surgery can be performed when needed. Necessary or desirable skin grafting is performed slightly delayed in time, in lesser amount under improved conditions. This is true because the increase in blood flow in blood-deficient tissue with heparin nicely prepares the healing tissue most favorable to receive skin grafts. Everyone involved is happier - patients, relatives, doctors, nurses, therapists and those who pay the bills are pleased and more at ease.
Heparin is ideal for use in 1 burned person or the many victims burned in Thermal Disasters Then, heparin sprayed on burns and in blisters would cost-effectively promptly relieve pain and initiate emergency therapy, where no workable effective treatment is available now.