A survey of children with burns in South Trinidad

ABSTRACT

A review is presented of 392 children under the age of ten years admitted to a paediatric surgical ward for the management of injuries sustained from burns. The majority of these admissions were due to scalds, but flash/flame burns were responsible for a significant number of cases and were also associated with a more severe type of injury. Improvement in the management of this problem awaits better education of the general public in preventive and first aid measures, but there is also a clear indication that the more severely burnt children would benefit from treatment in a specialised unit for burnt patients (AU)