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Case Reports
. 1994 Nov-Dec;12(6):819-24.
doi: 10.1016/0736-4679(94)90490-1.

Electric heating pad burns

T J Bill  1 , R F Edlich, H N Himel
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Case Reports

Electric heating pad burns

T J Bill et al. J Emerg Med. 1994 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

Patients with sensory deficits are especially prone to heating pad burns. Two cases are reported of patients with anesthetic skin who received partial and full-thickness burns of their feet from an electric heating pad. These burn injuries could have been prevented if the patients understood the potential hazard of heating pads.

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