PEDIATRIC BURN MECHANISMS AND ITS PREVENTIONS: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSISOF CHILDREN ADMITTED TO THE UHC MOHAMMED VI PLASTIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT IN MARRAKECH, MOROCCO

This study aims to describe the causes, mechanisms and characteristics of children burn injuries. It is a retrospective study that analyses the epidemiological particularities that are leading causes to burn injuries of a 100 cases of pediatric population and discuss different possible ways of its prevention. The pediatric cases of the UH Mohammed 6 plastic surgery department of Marrakech from January 2020 to December 2022 were retrospectively studied and the relative data were re-collected from the hospitalized patientsdigital medical records (i.e., etiology, age, gender, burn area and depth, length of stay (LOS), death). Children with burn injuries represent 40% of the admitted patients to our burn center, and this is an important percentage that should be studied and investigated in order to determine the elements that can contribute to brace prevention, which remains one of the only ways to ovecome this pathology. The average age is 3.82 years with a predilection for the age group under 5 years. Male involvement represents 62% of cases. The burn occurs at home and accidentally in more than 90% of cases. Thermal burns represent almost 92%which of scalding burns represents 68% of while Electric burns represent a relatively small proportion 6% of cases. The average total body surface area is 22.57%. The burn mainly concerns the trunk and the limbs.The average hospital admission time is 4 hours and the average length of hospital stay is 13.32%. The mortality rate is8%.