[Electric burns in children. Report of 3 cases related with flying kites. Review of the literature]. / Quemaduras eléctricas en niños. Reporte de tres casos relacionados con papalotes. Revisión de la literatura.

INTRODUCTION: Electric burns represent a small, although severe, fraction of all accidental burns. The purpose of this work is to present three children accidentally burned while flying a kite. CASE PRESENTATION: Two boys aged 9 and 10 years, and a 10-year-old girl, were injured when they tried to rescue a kite enmeshed with high voltage public electric wires. Two of the children suffered additional trauma after falling. Transitory right bundle block developed in one patient; multiple amputations and autologous skin transplantation were performed in another patient and renal insufficiency was not documented in any patient. After 5 to 34 days of hospitalization, all patients were discharged in good health. CONCLUSIONS: A preventive program should be developed to diminish the number of kite-flying-related electric burns, and their invalidating sequels.