Analysis of Exposure Factors for Clinical and Preventive Aspects of Pediatric Electrical Burn Patients who Visited the Emergency Department

Park,  Sang Jun; Kim,  Sung Wook; Jeong,  Won Jung; Oh,  Sang Hoon; Park,  Jeong Taek

doi:2015.28.3.170

J Trauma Inj > Volume 28(3); 2015 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Trauma and Injury 2015;28(3):170-176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20408/jti.2015.28.3.170 Published online September 30, 2015.

Analysis of Exposure Factors for Clinical and Preventive Aspects of Pediatric Electrical Burn Patients who Visited the Emergency Department

Sang Jun Park, Sung Wook Kim, Won Jung Jeong, Sang Hoon Oh, Jeong Taek Park

Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea. mdkaptain@ctholic.ac.kr

응급실에 내원한 소아 전기 화상 환자의 임상적 양상과 예방을 위한 노출 요인 분석

박상준, 김성욱, 정원중, 오상훈, 박정택

가톨릭대학교 의과대학 응급의학교실

Received: 26 August 2015 • Revised: 4 October 2015 • Accepted: 4 October 2015

Abstract

PURPOSE
The aims of this study were to discuss treatment and prevention under the age of 18 to identify the characteristics of the electrical burn patients.
METHODS
We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 97 patients with under age 18 of electric burn who were treated in emergency department of quarterly over 10,000 targets within the desired hospital for evaluation of electrical injuries between January 1, 2009 and December, 2013. We investigated age, gender, injury mechanism, season, degree of burn, surface of burn, complication, blood test, and voltage, kind of current.
RESULTS
Of the patients, 50 (50.5%) patients were in the first degree burn and 47 (49.5%) patients were in second degree burn. 68 (70.1%) patients had electric burn at home. 75 (85.2%) of 88 patients had normal sinus rhythm and other 13 people showed a RBBB, VPC, sinus bradycardia, sinus tachycardia. 41 (42.3) of 97 patients were in infants and 26 (26.8%) patients were in adolescence.
CONCLUSION
The results of this study emphasize the need for prevention of electricity at home for childhood and education of the adolescence.

Key Words: Burns; Electric; Age groups