Treatment of burns and their consequences in children

We summarized the experience of treatment in the Republican Burn Center from 1970 to 1986. 1847 children with fresh burns at the age of 7 days to 14 years and 368 children with scar contractures and deformities after burns. The overall lethality in thermal trauma in children was 4.9%; in patients with deep burns it was 9.2%, which was determined to a large extent by the severity of the condition of the victims. The proportion of children with deep skin lesions was rather high, 53.2% of all hospitalized patients, with 522 patients having areas of deep burns within 10% of body surface, 225 patients had areas from 11 to 20%, 132 had areas from 21 to 30%, 66 had areas from 31 to 40%, 38 had areas from 41 to 50%, 19 had areas from 51 to 60%, and 11 had areas over 60% of body surface.