OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics, pattern of injury and outcome of children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) following an inflicted injury. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A retrospective review of hospital records from a 30-bed PICU in a university teaching hospital, examining data for children admitted to the PICU after an inflicted injury from 1 January 2005 to...

BACKGROUND Burn injuries are common in poverty-stricken countries. The majority of patients with large and complex burns are referred to burn centres. Of the children who qualify for admission, according to burn admission criteria, about half require some kind of surgical procedure to obtain skin cover. These range from massive full-thickness fire burns to skin grafts for small, residual unheal...

Objective To analyze the self-inflicted violence by exogenous poisoning reported in a health service. Methods Epidemiological, retrospective and analytical study in an emergency care in the city of Teresina, Piauí. The study took place in January and February of 2015, upon review of all cases of self-inflicted violence by exogenous poisoning reported to the Information System on Diseases of C...

A high number of self-burning injuries are noted in Batticaloa. The epidemiology, outcome and psychosocial aspects of 87 patients admitted with such burns over a 2-year-period was studied. The patients were compared with accidental burns and patients using other methods of suicide. Seventy nine percent of the victims were females and 72% were in the 15-34 years age-group. Most had marital probl...

This study describes the epidemiology and patterns of moderate to severe burn injuries (%BSA>or=20-90) treated at the Italian Red Cross Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, during the medical mission of the tenth Italian Red Cross Contingent, from 3 April to 19 May 2004. Burn injuries sustained by members of the civilian population admitted to the Burns Unit, irrespective of age and sex, are analysed (n=...

INTRODUCTION Calcium carbide used in fruit ripening industry as a cheap alternative to natural plant hormone ethylene produces highly inflammable acetylene gas. Inadvertent ignition of this gas can cause severe ocular burn injury with unilateral or bilateral blindness. OBJECTIVE To determine the characteristics and visual outcome of ocular burn injuries from calcium carbide during mango ripen...

BACKGROUND Flap coverage is superior to graft for elbow defects secondary to burns to preserve range of motion. Reverse lateral arm flap is one of the few local options available with good colour and contour match and no sacrifice of major blood vessel. There has been few clinical series describing its use. The aim of this study is to describe its usefulness in both acute and post burn deformit...