Firefighter burn injuries: a 10-year longitudinal study. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Our metropolitan area employs approximately 11,000 firefighters who respond to more than 435,000 fire-related incidents per year. It is inevitable that some of these firefighters will suffer burn injuries. This 10-year retrospective review describes the epidemiology of firefighters with burn injuries who were treated at our burn center. From 1992 to 2002, 987 firefighters were treated at our burn center. The total number of firefighters treated for burn injuries and the number of firefighters who were treated for burn injuries to the lower extremities occurred in a bimodal distribution. Injury prevention efforts will continue to further reduce the incidence of burn injuries in the firefighters of our community.

publication date

  • January 1, 2004

Research

keywords

  • Burn Units
  • Burns
  • Fires
  • Occupational Diseases

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 4744347171

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/01.bcr.0000138290.49063.95

PubMed ID

  • 15353936

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 25

issue

  • 5