<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ArticleSet> <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> <ObjectList/> </Article> </ArticleSet>