title: Gas-fired gravity floor furnace contact burns.
abstract: Infants and toddlers are at particular risk for contact burns from the registers of gas-fired floor furnaces. We report 11-month-old and 12-month-old boys who sustained the classic grid-like pattern of burns to their skin after contracting the registers of gas-fired floor furnaces. The depth of these burns were judged to be partial thickness and healed without the application of skin grafts. Manufacturers must devise safe registers for gas-fired furnaces that will not cause contact burn injuries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Urbancic
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: VanMeter
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Edlich
authors.forename: H N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Himel
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000209:etiology*; D006361:Heating / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male