Electric heating pad burns.
Patients with sensory deficits are especially prone to heating pad burns. Two cases are reported of patients with anesthetic skin who received partial and full-thickness burns of their feet from an electric heating pad. These burn injuries could have been prevented if the patients understood the potential hazard of heating pads.
Bill
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Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908.
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Himel
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D000328:Adult; D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000209:etiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D018409:Foot Injuries / Q000209:etiology*; D006794:Household Articles; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain; D010166:Palliative Care; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism / Q000150:complications