[Electric burns in children. Report of 3 cases related with flying kites. Review of the literature].
BACKGROUND
Electric burns represent a small, although severe, fraction of all accidental burns. The purpose of this work is to present three children accidentally burned while flying a kite.


METHODS
Two boys aged 9 and 10 years, and a 10-year-old girl, were injured when they tried to rescue a kite enmeshed with high voltage public electric wires. Two of the children suffered additional trauma after falling. Transitory right bundle block developed in one patient; multiple amputations and autologous skin transplantation were performed in another patient and renal insufficiency was not documented in any patient. After 5 to 34 days of hospitalization, all patients were discharged in good health.


CONCLUSIONS
A preventive program should be developed to diminish the number of kite-flying-related electric burns, and their invalidating sequels.
Meza-Ortiz
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Centro de Convenciones, Acapulco, Guerrero, México D.F. dr_meza@hotmail.com
Rojas-Solís
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Noriega-Zapata
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D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings