Survival of an eight-year-old child with a very severe high-tension electrical burn injury: a case report.
We present the management and survival of an eight-year-old boy with a severe high-tension electrical burn injury of 68% of total body surface area in a surgical intensive care unit, as a result of a well-planned and applied treatment strategy. Subsequent to escharotomy and fasciotomy operations under general anesthesia, the patient was taken into the surgical intensive care unit. In addition, patient underwent nine more operations including right femur disarticulation and split-thickness skin graftings with homografts from his brother and autografts. The patient was connected to mechanical ventilator for 59 days. By the time the patient was transferred to plastic and reconstructive surgery ward, he was fully conscious, cooperated and hemodynamically stable.
Yildiz
Tülay S
TS
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Medicine Faculty of Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey. tulaysahin00@yahoo.com
Ağir
Hakan
H
Koyuncu
Didem
D
Solak
Mine
M
Toker
Kamil
K
D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D016038:Skin Transplantation