Prevalencia de quemaduras en miembro superior y amputación en niños menores de 15 años atendidos durante enero del 2014 a diciembre del 2016 en la unidad de quemados en el Hospital Roberto Gilbert Elizalde.

Abstract

Introduction: Electric and pyrotechnic burns, unlike other types of burns, can generate not only external but also internal lesions causing tissue, bone, tendon, neurovascular, severe compartment syndromes, arterial and venous vascular insufficiency, and thrombosis. big complications Successful amputation greatly decreases the morbidity and mortality of said patient and increases the survival rate. (4-5) Materials and methods: Observational, retrospective, quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive study among all patients under 15 years of age with electric burns and by pyrotechnics treated in the burn unit of Hospital Roberto Gilbert Elizalde in a period of three years of 2014 - 2016, data that was obtained from the hospital's medical records and database. Results: Among electrical burns and pyrotechnic burns in pediatric patients, the most prevalent was electrical. Of the 104 patients in the study, it was determined that 71 patients are male with a prevalence of 68.27% and 33 patients with a prevalence of 31.73% are female. Regarding the age group, the one that presented the most indistinct burn of the etiological agent was the preadolescents comprised between 10 - 13 years old with a total of 37 patients and a prevalence of 35.58%. Of the total number of amputees, 30 were electrical burns with a prevalence of 50.84% of the cases; and of the patients who presented burn by pyrotechnics were 29 patients with a prevalence of 49.15%. Conclusions: During the study period comprised between January 2014 and December 2016 at the Roberto Gilbert Elizalde Hospital, a total of 104 patients with electrical and pyrotechnic burns were recorded; of which 54 patients were due to an electrical cause and 50 patients due to pyrotechnics. It was concluded that electric burns were the causative agent with the highest percentage of patients. Among them, it was demonstrated that 59 patients presented amputation with a prevalence of (56.73%) and the burn was from the II - III degree of depth.