CAUSES OF BURNS IN CHILDREN

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Although the exact figures are not available, the incidence of burning accidents in the United States is extremely high. Only deaths due to burns are reported, and for this reason morbidity statistics are not available. Woodhall, in data derived from the North Carolina newspapers over a 12 month period from July 1, 1949, through June 30, 1950, found that burns ranked second with drownings in the list of causes of death in children.1It has been estimated that about 40,000 to 70,000 burns occur per year. Due to the vast improvements in the treatment of initial burn shock, about 50 to 60% of these burned children are surviving. Thus, those persons who formerly would have died as the result of a severe burn now present an ever-increasing problem of care, handicap, and disability as the result of their survival. The literature has been replete with papers on the treatment

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