The structure of fatality in burn disease in children
Vozdvizhenskiĭ, S.I.; Okat'ev, V.S.; Budkevich, L.I.; Kamenshchikov, A.V.
Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 3: 3-5
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 2366420 Document Number: 357003
On the basis of expert estimation of 208 case records of the children, who died from thermal trauma, the structure and causes of lethality in burn shock, toxemia and septicotoxemia were studied. The organization and therapeutico-diagnostic errors were analysed. The concept of "critical burn" was defined for the children of different age.