Zötterman Johan, Steinvall Ingrid, Elmasry Moustafa
Department of Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Burns, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
J Burn Care Res. 2018 Jun 13;39(4):618-622. doi: 10.1093/jbcr/irx037.
The impression among the attending physicians at their Burn Centre is that the number of contact burns caused by glass-fronted stoves is increasing, particularly in the youngest group of patients. It is an interesting subgroup, as these injuries are preventable. The authors' aim of this study was to find out whether the incidence of burns after contact with glass-fronted stoves has increased.The authors included all patients aged between 0 and 3.9 years who presented to the National Burn Centre during the period 2008-2015 with contact burn injuries caused by glass-fronted stoves. The change in incidence over time was calculated from national records and analyzed with simple linear regression.Fifty-six patients were included, of whom 20 were treated during the past 2 years of the study. Thirty-seven of the 56 were boys (66%), median (10-90 percentiles) age was 1.1 (0.7-2.5) years, percentage total body surface area burned was 0.6% (0.1-2.0), 12 were admitted for overnight stay in hospital, and seven needed operations. The incidence was 0.34/100 000 children-years during the first 2 years, and it was three times as high during the past 2 years. The increase in incidence was 0.24/100 000 children-years by each 2-year period (P = .02).The authors' results indicate that contact burns among children caused by glass-fronted stoves are increasing in Sweden. The authors propose that there should be a plan for their prevention put in place.
该烧伤中心的主治医生们感觉，玻璃面板炉灶导致的接触性烧伤病例数量在增加，尤其是在最年幼的患者群体中。这是一个有趣的亚组，因为这些损伤是可以预防的。作者开展这项研究的目的是查明接触玻璃面板炉灶后烧伤的发生率是否有所上升。作者纳入了2008年至2015年期间前往国家烧伤中心就诊、因玻璃面板炉灶导致接触性烧伤的所有0至3.9岁患者。根据国家记录计算发病率随时间的变化，并采用简单线性回归进行分析。共纳入56例患者，其中20例是在研究的最后2年接受治疗的。56例中有37例为男孩（66%），年龄中位数（第10至90百分位数）为1.1（0.7至2.5）岁，烧伤的体表面积百分比为0.6%（0.1至2.0），12例住院过夜，7例需要手术。最初2年的发病率为每100 000儿童年0.34例，而在最后2年则是其3倍。每2年期间发病率的增加为每100 000儿童年0.24例（P = .02）。作者的结果表明，在瑞典，玻璃面板炉灶导致的儿童接触性烧伤正在增加。作者建议应制定相应的预防计划。
