Abstract

Every year about a hundred children with burns and scalds are hospitalised in the Burns Unit of the University Children's Hospital in Zürich. 15% of these patients are children between 1/2 to 4 years old with isolated burns and scalds of their hands. The experience gained in the treatment of 53 such children during 4 years is described. The burn healed spontaneously in 31 patients; in 22 cases Thiersch grafts had to be used. In the follow-up treatment compression suits and special splints to prevent secondary contractures were employed. The results of this treatment using splints and compression suits are discussed.

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