title: Assessment and management of paediatric burn injuries.
abstract: Severe, non-fatal, burn injuries cause pain as well as emotional and physical scarring. The main aim of treatment is to restore form, function and feeling to burn-injured skin and to enable physical and psychological recovery. This article provides an overview of the immediate assessment required when a child with burns arrives in the emergency department and discusses the challenges of emergency management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University. c.williams@swansea.ac.uk
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002056:Burns / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans