Paediatric burns in Bucharest, Romania; 4327 cases over a 5-year period

Abstract

This is a retrospective study based upon 4327 paediatric burns (0-16 years of age) admitted over a period of 5 years, as from January 1988. Epidemiological data include age, sex, cause of burn, extent of injury, social and economic status, period of time between the accident and the admission to hospital. The overall mortality rate was 5.8 per cent. We tried to correlate the mortality rate with the epidemiological data. The recent use of Flamazine cream in our centre (as from January, 1993) seems to have decreased the mortality rate to 2.6 per cent (12 deaths out of 450 patients admitted during the first 7 months of 1993). No study of childhood burns has previously been reported from Romania.