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  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Universidad Simon Bolivar</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Revista Ciencia e Innovación en Salud</JournalTitle>
      <PubDate PubStatus="ppublish">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>Nov</Month>
        <Day>20</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <ArticleTitle>Epidemiology of hand burns in a referral center in Colombia: Retrospective cohort.</ArticleTitle>
    <FirstPage>1</FirstPage>
    <ELocationID EIdType="doi">10.17081/innosa 67</ELocationID>
    <Language>EN</Language>
    <AuthorList>
      <author>
        <FirstName>Diego Fernando Alarcón Ariza</FirstName>
        <Email>diegoalarconmd@gmail.com</Email>
        <AffiliationInfo>
          <Affiliation>Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia</Affiliation>
        </AffiliationInfo>
      </author>
      <author>
        <FirstName>Genny Liliana Meléndez Florez</FirstName>
        <Email/>
        <AffiliationInfo>
          <Affiliation>Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia</Affiliation>
        </AffiliationInfo>
      </author>
      <author>
        <FirstName>Héctor Julio Meléndez Florez</FirstName>
        <Email/>
        <AffiliationInfo>
          <Affiliation>Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia</Affiliation>
        </AffiliationInfo>
      </author>
    </AuthorList>
    <Abstract>
      <AbstractText label="SUMMARY">Hands are involved in more than 80% of all severe burns. The majority occur in lower resource locations, where prevention programs are exceptional.</AbstractText>
      <AbstractText label="METHODS">Analytic retrospective study of hand burns patients admitted to the burn unit from January 2013 to December 2017. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses were perform for each outcome variable</AbstractText>
      <AbstractText label="RESULTS"/>
      <AbstractText label="DISCUSSION">: 349 patients with hand burns were included, 60% men and 40% women, most of the inpatients aged from 0- 9 years. Scalds (40%), fire (27%) and contact (15,5%) were the major causes of hand burns. The mean total body surface area (TBSA) compromised was 3.9%, with a range of 0.5- 33% TBSA. Hand burns happened more commonly at home (58,7%). 71 patients (20%) required hand surgery.</AbstractText>
      <AbstractText label="CONCLUSIONS">The results of this study contribute to characterize the behavior of hand burns in Colombia. Children are a high risk group, burn prevention education would help to reduce the incidence of hand burns on northeast area of Colombia.</AbstractText>
    </Abstract>
    <CopyrightInformation>Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0</CopyrightInformation>
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