Sink bathing burns: A unique opportunity for an injury prevention initiative
| Autor: | Christina M. Shanti, Breanna A. Borg, Justin D. Klein, Michael Durgham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Hot Temperature Community education Bathing Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Injury prevention Humans Medicine Program Development Socioeconomic status Retrospective Studies business.industry Infant Baths 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Burn center Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Length of Stay Outreach Child Preschool Family medicine Emergency Medicine Female Surgery High incidence Burns business |
| Zdroj: | Burns. 46:1875-1879 |
| ISSN: | 0305-4179 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.burns.2020.05.016 |
| Popis: | Sink-bathing is common practice among parents. However, this puts infants and young children at unrecognized risk for burn injuries. As the only verified pediatric burn center in a large urban area, we treat burn patients from a large variation in socioeconomic status. This provides us a unique opportunity to examine sink-burn injury patterns, circumstances surrounding these burns, identify areas with high incidence and put in place an injury prevention outreach initiative. This retrospective study included patients treated for sink-bathing burns at our burn center in an 8.5-year period. Analysis of 71 patients revealed infants under one year of age are most commonly afflicted. Additionally, that families of low-socioeconomic means are disproportionately affected. Understanding the different circumstances surrounding sink-bathing burns allows us to be more specific in our community education efforts and efficiently guide our resources. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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