Emergency plastic treatment in children's facial injury

Abstract

Objective To analyze and summarize the features of children's facial wound and to share the emergency treatment experiences.Methods An retrospective study was conducted on the pathogenesis,age distribution,emergency treatment methods and complications in 1407 children (under 15 years of age) during recent 8 years (from January 2004 to December 2011).Results In this study the major facial wound type was simply lacerations (1196/1407,85.0 ％),and the most common wound cause was trumbling injury (1154/1407,82.0 ％).The T area was the easiest injured,successively,forehead (562/1407,39.9％),chin (211/1407,15.0％),lips (196/1407,13.9％) and nose (95/1407,6.8％).Here were 2 peaks in age distribution which were 2 and 5 years of age,respectively.Pleased outcome would be found while normalized plastic means were taken.After 3 to 6 months following up,there were 5 infection cases,27 cases healed with hypertrophic scars,and 7 cases with traumatic tattoos in wound location.Conclusions The most common wound type is simply laceration.2 and 5 years of age are two of the highest risk stages.It is necessary to act up to plastic surgery principles and take children's particularity into account when emergency treatment,and to do our best to minimize the scar in the first operation time. Key words: Emergency treatment; Children; Facial wound; Plastic surgery