Характеристики на изгарянията в детска възраст
Characteristics of thermal injuries in children

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of our study was to identify and determine the characteristics of the factors that are significant for the development of thermal injuries in children: the causing agent, the suffering organism, the environment; in order to prevent these severe and sometimes fatal cases. We used data from patients’ histories (aged < 18 years) admitted to the Clinic of Thermal Traumas and Plastic-Restorative and Aesthetic Surgery at the Military Hospital – Varna for a 5 years period (2011-2015). During this period, 565 children with thermal injuries were treated in the clinic (221 girls/39.1% and 344 boys/60.9%). Two of the cases had a fatal outcome. The most common cases included hot water or other liquid burns (367/65%); there were far less cases of contact or flame burns: 109 (19.4%) and 55 (9.85%). In more than three quarters of the cases, the burns affected less than 10% of the total body surface area. It is advisable to analyse the obtained results in order to help develop a program aimed at reducing the severity of these cases from a medical, forensic, social and economic point of view.

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