Characteristics of paediatric burns seen at a tertiary centre in a low income country: A five year (2004–2008) study

Fadeyibi, IO; Mustapha, I.A.; Ibrahim, NA; Faduyile, F.I.; Faboya, M.O.; Jewo, P.I.; Ademiluyi, S. A.

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“…These factors include poverty, frequent electric power outages, irregular supply and high cost of petroleum products, poor housing facilities, traditional/religious ceremonies and road traffic accidents [2][3][4]. The injuries occur sporadically at homes, public places, factories and occasionally in disaster forms [1][2][3]. The incidence of burns is on the increase globally [5].…”

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“…Features of underdevelopment and infrastructural deficiencies have been largely implicated as main causative factors [1,2]. These factors include poverty, frequent electric power outages, irregular supply and high cost of petroleum products, poor housing facilities, traditional/religious ceremonies and road traffic accidents [2][3][4]. The injuries occur sporadically at homes, public places, factories and occasionally in disaster forms [1][2][3].…”

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“…Road traffic accidents involving petrol tankers have also resulted in fire explosions and burns. Other causes of burns including scald, chemical and electricity have been reported [3].…”

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“…Advances in the treatment of burns in the last three to four decades have contributed to the decrease in mortality [5]. Various studies report burn-related mortality rates in burn clinics of 2.5 -35% [6][7][8][9]. Mortality rates vary depending on the study population and the characteristics of the patients [6].…”

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Clinical Outcome of Patients With Severe Burns Presenting to the Emergency Department

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“…25 The same result was seen in many of previous studies around the world. 3,82,[86][87][88] This is because of, the large proportion of the total body surface area affected among flame burn victims, in which the flame produced by flammable substance spread to wide space area of the body. As well as these patients were more prone to mortal complications especially in pediatric populations such as burn shock, acute renal failure and sepsis.…”

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Burn injury is one of the most common and devastating forms of trauma and a major health problem of pediatric morbidity and mortality worldwide. The risk of infection in pediatric burns is well-known. An observational checklist was used by the researcher to assess the patients' characteristics and factors related to burn injury and infection from 1037 pediatric patients. The observational data collection showed that 56.5% of patients were males. The highest risk groups for burn injury are preschool stages. The most frequent places for burns were home 97.5%. The mechanism of burn includes scalds 72.5%, flame 22.8%, contact 2.1%, electrical 1.8%, chemical 0.8% and friction 0.2%. The prevalence of infection was 23.4%. Patients from flame burns more likely get infections 39.1% (p=0.001). Other factors associated with infection such as degree of burns, extent of body burn surface and length of hospital stay. Regarding etiology of scald burn injury, hot water is a predominant cause of burn injury 78.99%. There was a significant relation between Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) and mortality p<0.001. Patients with >40% of TBSA has a high proportion rate for death 55.7%. The majority of died patients caused by flame 65.6% and statistically highly significant P<0.001. Infection and inhalation injury are the main factors related to death 37.7% vs. 58.0%. From 748 positive samples, the most common found organism was MethicillinResistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 34.2%, followed by Pseudomonas aerogenosa and Acienetobacter baumannii 16.7%, 16.4% respectively. Patients with greater mean TBSA and prolonged hospital stay more likely to get Gram-negative bacterial and fungal infections and highly statistically significant p<0.001. Many other studies are need to determine the epidemiology and factors related to microbiological infection among pediatric burn patients. Keywords: pediatric, burn patient, nosocomial infection, tbsa & mrsa MOJ Gerontology & Geriatrics Research ArticleOpen Access Source of organisms are found in the patient's own endogenous, from exogenous in the environment, and from healthcare personal or parents. The most common type of Nosocomial infections in burned children's is bloodstream infections, pneumonia, UTI, skin and surgical site infections. Organisms such as gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, viral and yeast/fungal are the main causes of burn nosocomial infections. 16,17 Burn centers and burn hospitals should routinely determine and observe the specific pattern of burn microbial infection, time-related changes in the predominant microbial flora of the burn patient, the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of microorganisms implicated in burn wound infections in a given time period, and trends in the nosocomial spread of these agents. Characteristics of burn injury and factors in relation to infection among pediatric patients 18,19 Methods Study design and settingThe study was conducted at Sulaimani Burn and Plastic Surgery Hospital, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. The data collection w...

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Characteristics of paediatric burns seen at a tertiary centre in a low income country: A five year (2004–2008) study

Cited by 35 publications

References 21 publications

Practice of first aid in burn related injuries in a developing country

Practice of first aid in burn related injuries in a developing country

Clinical Outcome of Patients With Severe Burns Presenting to the Emergency Department

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