소아 화상 환자에 대한 임상적 연구 = A CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PEDIATRIC BURN PATIENTS

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

From Jan. 1988 to July 1990, 1641 burn patients were admitted to Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital. Among them, 538 patients were under the age of fifteen. In these pediatric burn patients, retrospective study was done for the review of following issuses ; age and sex destribution, causes of burn, monthly, daily and hourly distribution of accidents, prevalent area of burn and duration of admission, mortality rate and causes of deaths according to the extents of burn.
The results were as follows ;
1) Children under 15years old were 32.8% of all admitted burn patients(1641).
2) Males were more frequently affected, and their percentage was 56.9%.
3) The most prevalent age group was between 1 and 2 years old(27.1%).
4) The most common cause of burns were scalds(78.4%), followed by flame(19%), contact(1.7%) and electric(1%).
5) Burning accidents were frequently occurred in March and October, on Sunday and at 7-8PM, 1-2PM and 9-10AM.
6) Lower extremity was most frequently involved(36%), followed by upper extremity(22.6%), trunk(21.7%), hand(9.7%) and head & neck(9.6%).
7) The mean hospital day was 21.4% days, and days of admission were abruptly prolonged over 40% burn of total body surface.
8) Overall mortality rate was 8.1%(40 cases), and causes of deaths were sepsis(62.5%), respiratory failure(25%), asphyxia(2.5%), hypovolemic shock(2.5%) and CO intoxication(2.5%).