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Table 3 Mechanism of injury in patients aged <5 and patients aged 5–16 for scalds, contact and chemical burns only

From: Epidemiology of burns and scalds in children presenting to the emergency department of a regional burns unit: a 7-year retrospective study

 

All patients (n = 1260)

Patients aged <5 (n = 850)

Patients aged 5–16 (n = 410)

p value

Scald

 Hot beverage

334 (58.7 %)

248 (66.3 %)

86 (44.1 %)

0.001

 Domestic water

168 (29.5 %)

94 (25.1 %)

74 (37.9 %)

0.020

 Food item

67 (11.8 %)

32 (8.6 %)

35 (17.9 %)

0.006

Contact burn

 Portable household agent

254 (45.1 %)

175 (44.1 %)

79 (47.6 %)

0.083

 Fixed household agent

241 (42.8 %)

190 (47.9 %)

51 (30.7 %)

0.001

 Outdoor agent

61 (10.8 %)

28 (7.1 %)

33 (19.9 %)

0.004

 Miscellaneous

7 (1.2 %)

4 (1.0 %)

3 (1.8 %)

0.706

Chemical

 Spill

47 (36.7 %)

21 (26.6 %)

26 (53.1 %)

0.008

 Ingestion

25 (19.5 %)

20 (25.3 %)

5 (10.2 %)

0.139

 Eye splash

56 (43.8 %)

38 (48.1 %)

18 (36.7 %)

0.670

  1. Miscellaneous items: candle wax (2), man-hole cover (1), hot brick kiln (1), metal bar from bonfire (1), melted plastic (2)