Knowledge of childhood burn risks and burn first aid: Cool Runnings
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Burn wound progression and the importance of first aid
A burn injury is one of the most severe forms of trauma that can be sustained (National Burn Care Review Committee Report [NBCR], 2001). Burns and scalds can have a wide variety of causes such as thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical or radiation, but all will involve coagulative destruction of the skin (Rawlins, 2011). About 250,000 people sustain burn injuries in the UK every year; 175,00...
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury Prevention
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1353-8047,1475-5785
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042650