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PEDIATRICS Vol. 113 No. 1 January 2004, pp. 173-174

Scald Burns in the Bathroom: Accidental or Inflicted?

Sintha D. Sie, MD
Annemarie M. C. van Rossum, MD, PhD
Anne Marie Oudesluys-Murphy, MB, PhD
Department of Paediatrics Medisch Centrum Rijnmond-Zuid, locatie Zuider The Netherlands

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To the Editor.—

We read the article by Titus et al1 in the February 2003 issue of Pediatrics with great interest. They reported accidental scald injuries that closely mimic inflicted injuries. One of the 3 Burns Centers of The Netherlands is situated in our hospital, the Medisch Centrum Rijnmond-Zuid in Rotterdam. A mean of 53 children <8 years old is admitted each year with burns; of these a mean of 78% are due to scald injuries. After reading the article by Titus et al, we retrospectively reviewed the charts of all children <8 years old admitted with scald injuries to our unit in the period of March to December 2002. Our data showed that most scald injuries occurred in the home (94%). In 43 . . . [Full Text of this Article]