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Review
. 2004 Jun 5;328(7452):1366-8.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7452.1366.

ABC of burns. Introduction

Shehan Hettiaratchy  1 , Peter Dziewulski
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Review

ABC of burns. Introduction

Shehan Hettiaratchy et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 6
Figure 6
Bitumen burns to face in work related incident
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Figure 9
UK government's “Fire kills” campaign started in 2002
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Figure 1
Top: Child with 70% full thickness burns, which required resuscitation, intensive care support, and extensive debridement and skin grafting. Left: The same child one year later at a burns camp, having made a good recovery. A reasonable outcome is possible even with severe burn injuries
Figure 1
Figure 1
Top: Child with 70% full thickness burns, which required resuscitation, intensive care support, and extensive debridement and skin grafting. Left: The same child one year later at a burns camp, having made a good recovery. A reasonable outcome is possible even with severe burn injuries
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Figure 3
Causes of burns (left) and incidence of burns by age (right)
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Figure 4
Scald in young child caused by spilling hot liquid. Most of the burn is superficial, except for the patch on the shoulder, which required a skin graft and which healed well
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Figure 5
Burn incurred by an adolescent boy while inhaling butane gas. There was full thickness damage to the lower lip, which required debridement and extensive reconstruction
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Figure 7
Contact burns in an elderly patient after a collapse and prolonged contact with a radiator. Treatment required excision and split skin grafting as well as investigation into the cause of the collapse
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Figure 8
Factors that increase the risk of death after a major burn
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