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兒童燒燙傷;燒傷場所;燒傷原因;pediatric burns;location of burn accident;causes of burn injuries
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An Investigation Of Age, Causes And Locations Associated With Moderate To Severe Burns In Infants And Young Children, Chin-Mao Chen, Jen-Yu Schoung, Chwen-Yng Su, Chun-Sheng Hsieh
An Investigation Of Age, Causes And Locations Associated With Moderate To Severe Burns In Infants And Young Children, Chin-Mao Chen, Jen-Yu Schoung, Chwen-Yng Su, Chun-Sheng Hsieh
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
The purposes of this study were to investigate the circumstances of occurrences in 53 patients with moderate to severe burns under 12 years of age, who were admitted to the burn center of the Armed Forces Tsoying Hospital in Kaohsiung from June 1998 to May 2000. The subjects were further divided into three age groups: 0-3 years, 3-6 years, and at least six but less than twelve years old for pairwise comparisons purpose.The results showed that the overall ratio of male to female was 2.3. Scalds accounted for 75.5% of all burns, whereas the remaining 24.5% were ascribed to flame …