DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i05.021

Pages: 1798-1801

It is a prospective study involving 45 burned children hospitalized and followed in the burn unit of the Mohammed V hospital in Meknes, Morocco, over a period spread over 2 years from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2018. The average age iwas 4.28 years with a predilection for the age group of one to five years, with 66.6% of cases. Male involvement is found in 71.1% of cases. The burn occurs at home in 95.5% and accidentally in 97.7% of cases. Thermal burns accounted for 97.6% of the cases dominated by liquids in 91% of the cases. The total body surface area burned (TBSB) is ≥ 20% in 44.4%, no area of the body is spared, with trunk predilection (69%) followed by upper limbs (62%). The mortality rate was 6,6%. All these results will make it possible to determine the elements that can contribute to prevention, which remains the only way to avoid this pathology.