Mateu L P, Hernandez J J
Hospital 9 de Octubre, Valencia, Spain.
J Burn Care Rehabil. 1999 Sep-Oct;20(5):417-21; discussion 416.
A great number of studies on burns have been carried out from the epidemiologic point of view. However, the prevention of burns is only feasible when the risk factors on which we can act are known. In this study we attempt to analyze the different characteristics of the burns of the patients that were treated in our burn center. We designed a questionnaire with 31 questions of clinical and epidemiologic interest. This questionnaire was filled out with information for each of the 265 patients admitted to the burn unit in Alicante, Spain, during 1990 and 1991. Most of the patients we saw during this time were male, age 15 to 40 years old, urban residents, and smokers; we now consider those characteristics to be predisposing factors for burn injuries in our area. The most frequent agent of injury has been fire, except in the group of children less than 5 years old, in which scalds prevailed. Primary prevention of burns depends on knowing the most important risk factors of a certain area, which should then be targeted with prevention programs.
已经从流行病学角度对烧伤进行了大量研究。然而，只有当我们知道可以采取行动的风险因素时，烧伤预防才可行。在本研究中，我们试图分析在我们烧伤中心接受治疗的患者烧伤的不同特征。我们设计了一份包含31个临床和流行病学相关问题的问卷。这份问卷填写了1990年和1991年期间西班牙阿利坎特烧伤科收治的265例患者每人的信息。这段时间我们诊治的大多数患者为男性，年龄在15至40岁之间，城市居民且吸烟；我们现在认为这些特征是我们地区烧伤的易感因素。除了5岁以下儿童组烫伤占主导外，最常见的致伤因素是火灾。烧伤的一级预防取决于了解特定地区最重要的风险因素，然后针对这些因素制定预防计划。
