Psychiatric Interventions with Burned Children

The resuscitation of burned children.

Burns and scalds remain all too common injuries among children in this country. In any large series of burns in children two major groups are discernible: first the toddler of either sex who is particularly subject to scalds from hot water or tea; secondly, the 5-to-8-year-old, usually a girl, whose clothes catch fire from a naked flame. While the majority of these injuries fall into the 'minor...

Costing Psychiatric Interventions

The demands and needs for cost information in psychiatric contexts have multiplied considerably in recent years, but have often been frustrated by inadequate data. The typical costs data available to the policy maker, manager, clinical professional or researcher have been dominated until recently by age-old accounting practices and line management arrangements, and constrained by fragmentation ...

Developing a Protocol for Psychiatric Social Work Interventions

Introduction: Psychiatric social work (PSW) is one of the most important areas of social work practice. So far, no protocol has been designed for these interventions in Iran. In this study, for the first time PSW protocol has been designed and presented. Methods: This study was conducted in three phases: desk review, directed content analysis and group discussion for receiving experts' comments...

Managing children with psychiatric problems.

Mortality in burned children with acute renal failure.

BACKGROUND During the past 13 years, mortality from acute renal failure in burned children has been on the decline. OBJECTIVE To determine which new burn therapies contributed to the decrease in mortality. DESIGN The medical records of burned children admitted from February 1966 to January 1997 were reviewed, and the outcome of changes in the treatment of burned children were compared. PA...