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This study describes the epidemiology of unintentional adult burn injury admissions in a tertiary hospital in Nepal, from 2002 to 2013, focusing on gender-specific patterns. Chi-square tests and Wilcoxon Rank Sum tests were performed. There were 819 unintentional burn admissions: 52% were male and 58% younger than 35 years. The median percentage total body surface area burned (interquartile range) was greater in females than in males (P < .001): 28% (17-40) versus 20% (12-35), and female mortality was higher (32% vs 11%). A higher proportion females were illiterate than males (48% vs 17%). Burns occurred at home (67%), work (28%), and public places (5%); gender-specific patterns were observed. Flame burns accounted for 77%, electricity 13%, and scalds 8%. Kerosene (31%) and biomass (27%) were the major fuels. Cooking, heating, and lighting were the main activities associated with burn injury. Results support interventions to reduce the use of open fires and kerosene and to promote electrical safety.

jdjdBackground & Objectives: Prediction of outcome for patients with major thermal injury is important to inform clinical decision making, alleviate individual suffering and improve hospital resource allocation. Early prediction of outcome (i.e., survival or mortality) may help triage effectively, and to implement medical and surgical interventions efficiently as soon as possible. Burn mortality has decreased markedly with the improvement in burn management in the past 100 years, and multiple burn mortality prediction models have been developed over these times in response to that decline. But these services are still not enough to reduce the burn related injuries in low income country like Nepal. So we did a study to observe the effectiveness of two different but very popular models (Baux and ABSI) in our context.Materials & Methods: This was a prospective observational study where 92 cases of severe burn injury was selected and the results were compared with Baux and ABSI scoring system.Results: Total admission was 140 and mortality was 33. Out of these admission 92 cases of severe burn injury was selected for the study. Most (85.8 %) of were among the young group 16-40 years. It comprises 41.3 % in total. In total 63.7 % were female. Mortality with severe burn injury was 29.3%. No death had occurred below the Baux’s score 30 and there was more than 51% mortality above the score of 60. There was no mortality with ABSI scoring < 3 and mortality was high in ABSI scoring > 6.Conclusion: Baux and ABSI score systems are simple to calculate and ABSI is more accurate for prediction of acute burn injury.Journal of College of Medical Sciences-Nepal, Vol.11(4) 2015: 24-27

Dysgerminoma tends to occur in young women although its incidence in pregnancy is low. Torsion and incarceration occurs in nearly half of the cases. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment offers the best prognosis to the patient presenting with dysgerminoma. However because of enlarging abdominal size, pregnancy may mask the rapidly growing dysgerminoma often leading to late presentation. This is a case report of a female 30 years of age with stage 3C dysgerminoma which lead to acute surgical abdomen at 33weeks of pregnancy. Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology / Vol 7 / No. 1 / Issue 13 / Jan- June, 2012 / 53-55 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njog.v7i1.8838