Pediatr. praxi. 2016;17(6):375-378 | DOI: 10.36290/ped.2016.086

Treatment of very deep burns in a six-month infant

MUDr. Radomír Mager¹, MUDr. Břetislav Lipový, Ph.D.^1,2, MUDr. Ivan Suchánek¹, MUDr. Jana Bartošková¹

¹ Klinika popálenin a rekonstrukční chirurgie FN Brno

² LF Masarykovy univerzity Brno

During the last decades of the burn trauma occurs to shift the nature of the mechanism of burns and also to changes within individual age groups burned. Like in western countries currently thankfully we are shrinking extensive burns in the pediatric population. But on the other hand, are more and more lighter burns, especially scalds. The average age of burns is also reduced. Also increasing scalds in children at an early toddlers. In the case report, however, we present a burn, which evades those factors. It was a very deep contact burns in a six-month old girl who suffered it so that it fell on the hot iron in a child seat during the brief absence of the mother. Burned area mainly IV. grades are predominantly found on the front of the hull in the range of 9% of the body surface. Removal of devitalized tissue, including skin, subcutaneous fat in such a small child, it was necessary to do this quickly. With such a deep burns was not to use more environmentally friendly methods of chemical necrectomy. We had to remove the tissue sharply. Fortunately, the child managed the whole treatment without the need for mechanical ventilation or other serious complications.

Keywords: burn, mechanism of burn, scald, contact burns, necrectomy, treatment

Published: December 1, 2016  Show citation