Paediatric burns in Kuwait: Incidence, causes and mortality

Childhood burns in Sulaimaniyah province, Iraqi Kurdistan: A prospective study of admissions and outpatients

“…High burn rates in young children are reported from other countries such as 660 per 100,000 amongst children aged 0-4 years in the USA [12], 782 (only non-fatal burns) in Bangladesh [13] and 1388 per 100,000 reported amongst children below 5 years by a study from Pakistan [14]. The burn admission rate in our study (82 per 100,000 per year) is also consistent with a study from Iran rate of 103 admissions per 100,000 amongst children aged 0-1 years [15] but higher than Kuwait, 34 admissions per 100,000 per year [16] and New York, 67 admissions per 100,000 per years [3]. In our study the admission rate for boys was significantly higher than girls (boys 97, girls 67) which is consistent with results of other studies reported in a recent systematic review of burns injuries in the east Mediterranean region [7].…”

“…Mortality rates reported by other studies include 5.4% and 11.5% (mean/median TBSA not stated) reported from Iraq [9,18], 6.4% (mean TBSA 19%) reported from Iran [19], 9% (mean TBSA burnt 18%) reported from Turkey [20] and 10.6% (mean TBSA burnt 21%) reported from Iran [17]. Lower rates have been reported from high income countries such as 1.3% (median TBSA burnt 13%) reported from Kuwait [16] and 2.8 (mean TBSA burnt 15%) reported from Saudi Arabia [21]. Since burn size is the most important risk factor for death, including in Sulaimaniyah [22], the relatively high mortality rate in the current study needs further studies to investigate.…”

Epidemiology of burns in the United Arab Emirates: Lessons for prevention

“…Scalding from hot water and other hot liquids, was the major burn hazard, similarly to other studies from our region [19,22]. Feldman and Schaller [23] found that tap water scalds accounted for 7-17% of all scalds in children requiring hospitalization.…”

Childhood Deaths Resulted from Burn Injuries in Diyarbakır

“…According to literature, burns are frequently seen in preschool period and boys are affected more than girls (9-13). Seventy point eight percent of the cases were between the ages of 0-4 in a study including 0-14 ages in Kuwait (14). Seventy seven percent of the cases of burning in childhood were between the age of 0-6 and 60.65% of them were male in a ten years study previously conducted in Adana city (8).…”

“…Distrubition of cases according to type of burning 0-4 ages were scalding in a study in Holland (17), 67% of burning cases between 0-14 ages were scalding in a study in Kuwait (14). Most of burning cases between 0-10 ages were scalding in a study in Israel (18), 70% of burning cases in childhood were scalding, 16% of burning cases were flame burns in a study in Turkey (10).…”