Injury control in practice: Home radiator burns in inner-city children

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 954-957

  Quinlan, Kyran P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER;

ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL INJURY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029786382     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1996.02170340068013     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Rossignol AM, Boyle CM, Locke JA, et al. Hospitalized burn injuries in Massachusetts: an assessment of incidence and product involvement. Am J Public Health. 1986;76:1341-1343.
2. Remensnyder JP, Gryska PV. Hazards of wood-burning stoves to children. N Engl J Med. 1981;304:915-916.
3. Yanofsky NN, Morrain WD. Upper extremity burns from woodstoves. Pediatrics. 1984;73:722-726.
4. Rissmiller R. Kerosene heaters: a new burn threat to children. Clin Pediatr. 1983;22:203.
5. Waller JA. Tic-tac-toe burns: the hazard of exposed floor-type room heaters. N Engl J Med. 1961;265:1256-1257.
6. Berger LR, Kalishman S. Floor furnace burns to children. Pediatrics. 1983;71: 97-99.
7. Grossman ER. Floor furnace burns. Pediatrics. 1984;73:568-569.
8. US Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1993 Product Summary Report. Washington, DC: National Electronic Injury Surveillance System; 1994.
9. Moritz AR, Henriques FC. Studies of thermal injury: the relative importance of time and surface temperature in the causation of cutaneous burns. Am J Pathol. 1947;23:695-720.
10. Feldman KW, Schaller RT, Feldman JA, McMillon M. Tap water scald burns in children. Pediatrics. 1978;62:1-7.
11. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Injury and Poison Prevention. Office-based counseling for injury prevention. Pediatrics. 1994;94:566-567.
12. Santer LJ, Slocking CB. Safety practices and living conditions of low-income urban families. Pediatrics. 1991;88:1112-1118.
13. Gielen AC, Wilson MEH, Faden RR, Wissow L, Harvilchuck JD. In-home injury prevention practices for infants and toddlers: the role of parental beliefs, barriers and housing quality. Health Educ Quarterly. 1995;22:85-95.
14. Stone NH, Rinaldo L, Humphrey CR, Brown RH. Child abuse by burning. Surg Clin North Am. 1970;50:1419-1424.
15. Keen JH, Lendrum J, Wolman B. Inflicted burns and scalds in children. BMJ. 1975;4:268-269.
16. Smith SM, Hanson R. 134 battered children: a medical and psychological study. BMJ. 1974;3:666-670.
17. Datubo-Brown DD, Gowar JP. Contact burns in children. Burns. 1989;15:285-286.