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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Burn units have started treating severe burns using fish skin.

Some centers are testing the technique because they don’t have access to enough of the bandages that are common in the United States.

As CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reports, it can happen in an instant — a fire or accident can lead to a major burn, like what happened to Brett Sigworth.

“I went into complete panic mode, just screamed. I mean, I’ve never experienced pain like that in my life,” he said.

Serious burns often end up in burn centers, like the University of California San Diego unit profiled in a Discovery channel documentary.

Severe burns are among the worst injuries a person can suffer. One of the first priorities is trying to cover the burned skin to prevent dehydration and infection.

“What you want to do is get the wound closed as quickly as possible. Then you wouldn’t have to make a new wound by harvesting skin from the patient from somewhere that isn’t burned,” Dr. Palmer Bessey, of New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, said.

The associate director of the largest burn center in the Northeast, says that usually means covering the burns with cadaver skin from a skin bank or with pig skin.

“If you clean the wound and you cover it with one of those materials, the skin would have as good a chance to regrow that part of it that was lost,” Bessey said.

But what if there isn’t enough donor or pig skin available for a burn center? Doctors in Brazil have come up with an ingenious solution, using something they have plenty of — fish skin, or more specifically, tilapia skin.

It seems that by carefully harvesting, processing and freezing skin from wild and farmed tilapia — a major food export in Brazil — doctors are able to use it as a dressing to cover burned skin, Gomez reports.

“If they can make the wound warm, keep it moist and have it relatively free from bacteria, they should have pretty good results,” Bessey said.

Doctors at the federal university in northern Brazil are testing the tilapia skin on their burn patients and say that, so far, it speeds up healing by several days and reduces the need for pain medication. Just like human or pig skin, it’s a temporary bandage, which the body eventually sloughs off or is removed by doctors.

Bessey told Gomez that doctors in Brazil are also using something else they apparently have plenty of to treat burns — frog skin.

Meanwhile, researchers in the U.S. and Australia are developing synthetic skin grown in the lab from stem cells, which may be the future, but right now is very expensive and slow to grow.

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A first aid course in Mental Health has now been successfully completed by some 90 people across the Archdiocese.

With an aim to identify and address the needs of those experiencing mental health issues across the Archdiocese, as well as their families and carers, the course is held over two Saturdays at the Emmanuel Centre in Perth. The next course dates are 26 August and 9 September. Applications are being accepted now.

Chaplain for the Catholic Ministry for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Fr Paul Pitzen said that with the course now its fourth year, a number of scholarships have also been accepted and well received, with some 20 people who are deaf and/or hard of hearing also having completed the course.

“The Mental Health First Aid course enables a participant to assist others who may be experiencing a mental health crisis or developing a mental health problem,” Fr Pitzen said.

“Participants learn the signs and symptoms of mental health issues, where and how to get help and what sort of help has been shown through research to be effective.

“The first aid is administered until appropriate professional treatment is received or until the crisis resolves,” he explained.

Fr Pitzen went on to say that in figures published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, almost 48 per cent of people with a severe or profound disability experience a mental health issue, compared to six per cent of people without a disability.

“It has therefore been imperative that we include people with a disability in this training as it means they are better equipped to help other deaf people in need,” he added.

Upon completion of the course, participants are then invited to be part of the Catholic Mental Health Network (CMHN) which meets once every six to eight weeks.

The aim of the CMHN is to have one or two people from every parish trained in Mental Health First Aid as part of this network.

Fr Pitzen explained that since completion of the first Mental Health First Aid course in 2013, members of the CMHN have been quietly but actively promoting mental health in their own parishes.

“For example, our members from the North Beach and Glendalough parishes organised mental health talks in June and August of last year titled ‘Coping with Change,’ which covers how change can affect individuals and how individuals can learn to reduce personal stress and develop a plan to support themselves through times of change,” Fr Pitzen said.

“Another member from Baldivis recently organised a mental health stall at their parish expo, and some others provide willing ears over a cup of morning tea after Mass to anyone who might need them.”

Fr Pitzen also noted that participants of the course also come away with skills and knowledge to use in their own lives too.

“Many reported having used the skills within their own family, relatives and at work. One of our members, Sebastian told us about the time when his relative had a surgery complication and had to stay in ICU for many weeks.

“Using the skills from Mental Health First Aid training, Sebastian was able to talk with her and ask how she had been coping. Sebastian admitted he wouldn’t have done that in the past as he wouldn’t have known what to say. Another member, Louise said how the Mental Health First Aid skills have been useful in her work with teenagers at a high school. She said the course has allowed her to understand these young adults better and help them where necessary,” he concluded.

For more information about the Catholic Mental Health Network, contact the Emmanuel Centre on 9328 8113 or [email protected]. Or visit www.mhfa.com.au.

A new report from Ambulance Tasmania today has revealed some truly stunning details about the gross misuse of the service, proving a lot of us are becoming lazy, hypochondriacs and huge over-reactors.

The review, which was released in an effort to fix Tasmania’s rank as the state with the slowest emergency response time in the country, reveals the population are using the service for things most would see as the furthest thing from an emergency.

And while the review might’ve left a lot of Tasmanians out to dry, they definitely aren’t the only ones.

‘TRIVIAL CALLOUTS’

The review revealed Tasmanians, just like the rest of Australia, are inundating the emergency services with ridiculous calls.

Tasmania’s Health Minister Michael Ferguson highlighted some of the worst in a budget estimates hearing today, reports the ABC.

“We had a person call 000 because their dog was sick, and they wanted an ambulance to come and assess it,” Mr Ferguson said.

“One patient on Bruny Island realised they’d run out of medication on Christmas Eve, and the patient requested from the island that ambulance paramedics visit the pharmacy and collect their medications and put the ambulance on the ferry to deliver them.

“A person in Scottsdale called 000 wanting an ambulance because they had a blocked nose and a headache due to a cold.”

Paramedics are angry and struggling to reach everyone.Source:Supplied

The publication also reported Ambulance Tasmania attended to someone “suffering a toothache”, another person who “had an itchy eye”, a Hobart man who thought he’d broken his ankle but had been walking on it for two days and only had a small bruise and even a person who “had stubbed their toe and wanted an ambulance so they could go to hospital for an X-Ray”.

In a statement to news.com.au, Chief Executive for Ambulance Tasmania Neil Kirby revealed almost one in five people who receive ambulance care don’t even need to go to hospital.

“One person called 000 due to a cut finger and they described it as bleeding uncontrollably. When paramedics arrived the only treatement required was for a Band-Aid to be applied,” he said.

But they definitely aren’t the only ones with plenty more stories revealing the rest of Australia is guilty of similar unnecessary calls.

TASMANIA’S STRUGGLE

Tasmania was dubbed the slowest responding state in Australia last year after it was revealed you’ll wait on average 26 minutes for an ambulance to come to you after calling 000.

But, when you take into account the fact that the demand for ambulances is 14 times greater than the state’s population growth, it’s easy to understand why.

In the 2015/16 financial year, Tasmanian ambulances were called out to 90,000 separate incidents — that’s 247 incidents a day split among 53 separate stations and 300 fulltime workers.

If you think that sounds like a lot, then you’re absolutely right.

The small island state is home to 515,000 people which means close to one in five people were visited by an ambulance.

And clearly, not all of them are calling for life-threatening emergencies.

Tasmanian Police and Ambulance are being crushed by the weight of calls. Picture: Luke BowdenSource:News Corp Australia

BUT WHY CAN’T THEY JUST FILTER THE CALLS?

Most people who aren’t directly involved with the emergency services often wonder why those receiving the emergency calls aren’t sorting these “trivial call-outs” themselves.

If someone calls them saying they have a cut on their finger, why can’t they tell them to put a Band-Aid on?

If someone rings asking about the health of their pet, can’t they refer them to a local vet instead?

But, it isn’t always that simple news.com.au has learned.

“At the end of the day you never know. Some people rant when they’re panicked and don’t think clearly or struggle to articulate what they’re saying,” an emergency services professional said.

And that’s often the case with most of the non-life threatening call outs with the emergency services only realising the ridiculous nature of the call by the time they get there.

SEVERE PENALTIES

Penalties for calling 000 when there isn’t actually an emergency can be quite severe with some states even offering up three years in prison if you do.

Despite that threat, it seems like people really aren’t heeding the penalties with calls to the emergency services only increasing each year.

The only small victory — if these people do force paramedics to come all that way out for things as trivial as an itchy eye or an ingrown toenail, they’ll still be bumped right down to the bottom of the hospital queue when they arrive in their siren-blaring chariot.

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11-month-old with incurable skin condition gets blisters every time mother cuddles.

All a child wants when it is younger is to be cuddled by the mother and while most of them get the love abundantly, one mother in UK has to be cautious with her toddler in UK because of a unique problem. The child has a skin condition that makes the boy get blisters with touch because it is really fragile.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, a 11-month-old boy Jamie White from Eccleshall in Staffordshire is born with an incurable skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa that gives him blisters as soon as he is touched. The boy nicknamed ‘butterfly’ skin has skin that is so fragile that even if his mother touches him he gets painful blisters that take a lot of time to heal. The boy whose skin breaks easily is forced to wear his clothes inside out so that the seams and folds do not touch and hurt him.

The boy’s 32-year-old mother, Katie, has to spend one-and-a-half hour every night attending to him bandaging his wounds protecting him from infection. She also gives him morphine so that helps him deal with the pain. Unfortunately, the boy’s father has to even put a sticker on his pushchair asking people not to touch him.

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