Admission des enfants au Centre des Brules du CHU de Liege : etude retrospective epidemiologique et clinique.

In Belgium, epidemiological data are rare, and most often extrapolated, for burn injuries, especially in the pediatrician population. The purpose of this study was to obtain data for the pediatrician population in Liege. It retrospectively analyzed burns in the pediatrician population treated in the Burn Center Liege, during five years. Overall 844 patients (379 girls, 465 boys) were included for the first part of this study (burns localization and etiology, sex ratio, age), with a mean age of 4.2 years old. Over this five years period, the number of pediatrician patients admitted increased by 47 %. The most frequent burn site was the hand (32.8 %) and the burn cause was scalds (49.4 %). For the second part of the study (hospitalisation and treatment duration, hypertrophic scars), 712 patients were included (321 girls and 391 boys). Hypertrophic scars were found in 9.27 %. Our results show that burn injury is more often found in boys, and this injury occurs mostly in children under 5 years of age.