The devastating effects a fire burn in a child

Abstract

Burn injuries are a serious global public health concern with significant worldwide mortality and morbidity rates. Burns are among the most devastating of all injuries, with outcomes ranging from physical impairment and disability to emotional and mental consequences. Paediatric burns requiring treatment often incur significant health and opportunity costs, and frequently result in death or long-term disability. A recent systemic review showed that almost 50% of patients hospitalised with severe burns in Europe were younger than 16 years of age, and nearly 60% were male. This report discusses the case of a 2-year-old boy with second and third-degree skin burns over almost 45% of his body, including his head and arms, who presented to the eye clinic at the State Hospital in Hakkari 1 month after a fire burn accident. Both eyes had been burnt and the bilateral anterior chambers had been injured so badly that the patient was left blind.

Proceedings of the Iii International Scientific and Practical Conference “Psychological Health of the Person: Life Resource and Life Potential”

“…The research of psychological aspects of injury problems of the orthopedic injury in children is becoming more important in terms of industrialization and informatization of the society, stimulating the prevalence rate of injuries and the scope of its impact on somatic health, psychological weight and social integration in young age (Braaf, Ameratunga, Teague, Jowett, & Gabbe, 2016;Istek, 2015;Nicol, Pope, Romaniuk, & Hall, 2015). At the moment of the injury the physical state of the body changes immediately in the form of the destruction of an organ or its part by damaging environmental factors, manifested as a body reaction complex to this effect.…”

Characteristic and Introspection of Fire Accidents in Guizhou Province, China from 2008-2012

“…Another case reported that "A seven years old girl used the toilet water (a type of liquid for the mosquito repellent use), happened to meet with her brother playing fire, and got burned". Burns are among the most devastating of all injuries, with outcomes ranging from physical impairment and disability to emotional and physical consequences [4] . Many developed countries have high mortality rates for fire-related deaths in children aged0-14 years with steep social gradients [5] .…”