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National multicentric study on the incidence of alcohol burns during the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: Burns are traumatic wounds that occur when skin is exposed to an amount of energy greater than its maximum dissipation capacity. Alcohol, because it fuels flames and its vapor can cause an explosion, is one of the most common causal agents of burns in Brazil. In late 2019, the COVID-19 p...

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Autores principales: Kobarg, Bianca Sandi, Guanilo, Maria Elena Echevarría, Bernard, Gustavo Peressoni, Barreto, Marcos Guilherme Praxedes, Vana, Luiz Philipe Molina, de Oliveira Junior, Joir Lima, de Araújo, Kelly Danielle, de Lauro Machado Homem, Ricardo, Marlene Tecla, Elaine, de Arruda, Fabiano Calixto Fortes, Adorno, José, Gragnani, Alfredo, José Lopes Pereima, Maurício
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9026957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35610078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2022.04.005
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author Kobarg, Bianca Sandi
Guanilo, Maria Elena Echevarría
Bernard, Gustavo Peressoni
Barreto, Marcos Guilherme Praxedes
Vana, Luiz Philipe Molina
de Oliveira Junior, Joir Lima
de Araújo, Kelly Danielle
de Lauro Machado Homem, Ricardo
Marlene Tecla, Elaine
de Arruda, Fabiano Calixto Fortes
Adorno, José
Gragnani, Alfredo
José Lopes Pereima, Maurício
author_facet Kobarg, Bianca Sandi
Guanilo, Maria Elena Echevarría
Bernard, Gustavo Peressoni
Barreto, Marcos Guilherme Praxedes
Vana, Luiz Philipe Molina
de Oliveira Junior, Joir Lima
de Araújo, Kelly Danielle
de Lauro Machado Homem, Ricardo
Marlene Tecla, Elaine
de Arruda, Fabiano Calixto Fortes
Adorno, José
Gragnani, Alfredo
José Lopes Pereima, Maurício
author_sort Kobarg, Bianca Sandi
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description BACKGROUND: Burns are traumatic wounds that occur when skin is exposed to an amount of energy greater than its maximum dissipation capacity. Alcohol, because it fuels flames and its vapor can cause an explosion, is one of the most common causal agents of burns in Brazil. In late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sudden and substantial increase in the use of 70% alcohol (w/v) for antisepsis. OBJECTIVES: To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of alcohol burns during the COVID-19 pandemic in participating Burn Treatment Centers, as well as the severity and treatment of these burns. METHOD: Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative and retrospective study based on data obtained from medical records of patients treated in participating Burn Treatment Centers. Data collection included origin, gender, education level, occupation, circumstance of the accident, wound depth and type of treatment. RESULTS: Of eight participating centers, theHospital da Restauraç ão Gov. Paulo Guerra Burn Treatment Center experienced the highest number of alcohol burn patients (38.4%) and male gender accounted for 53.6% of all cases. Predominant occupations were those that involve domestic activities (29%) and 48.6% of patients had not completed elementary school. The most common cause was an accident during cooking (35.5%) followed by suicide attempt (18.3%). More than half (58.6%) of the patients had concomitant second and third degree burns and wound treatment of choice was surgical (43.1%). CONCLUSIONS: The predominant population in this study was male, had a lower level of education, resided in the northeast region and had an occupation carried out in a domestic environment. The latter may reflect the population's longer stay at home due to social constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There were a large number of second and third degree burns and, as a consequence, a high number of cases in which surgical treatment was required.
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spelling pubmed-90269572022-04-22 National multicentric study on the incidence of alcohol burns during the COVID-19 pandemic Kobarg, Bianca Sandi Guanilo, Maria Elena Echevarría Bernard, Gustavo Peressoni Barreto, Marcos Guilherme Praxedes Vana, Luiz Philipe Molina de Oliveira Junior, Joir Lima de Araújo, Kelly Danielle de Lauro Machado Homem, Ricardo Marlene Tecla, Elaine de Arruda, Fabiano Calixto Fortes Adorno, José Gragnani, Alfredo José Lopes Pereima, Maurício Burns Article BACKGROUND: Burns are traumatic wounds that occur when skin is exposed to an amount of energy greater than its maximum dissipation capacity. Alcohol, because it fuels flames and its vapor can cause an explosion, is one of the most common causal agents of burns in Brazil. In late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sudden and substantial increase in the use of 70% alcohol (w/v) for antisepsis. OBJECTIVES: To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of alcohol burns during the COVID-19 pandemic in participating Burn Treatment Centers, as well as the severity and treatment of these burns. METHOD: Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative and retrospective study based on data obtained from medical records of patients treated in participating Burn Treatment Centers. Data collection included origin, gender, education level, occupation, circumstance of the accident, wound depth and type of treatment. RESULTS: Of eight participating centers, theHospital da Restauraç ão Gov. Paulo Guerra Burn Treatment Center experienced the highest number of alcohol burn patients (38.4%) and male gender accounted for 53.6% of all cases. Predominant occupations were those that involve domestic activities (29%) and 48.6% of patients had not completed elementary school. The most common cause was an accident during cooking (35.5%) followed by suicide attempt (18.3%). More than half (58.6%) of the patients had concomitant second and third degree burns and wound treatment of choice was surgical (43.1%). CONCLUSIONS: The predominant population in this study was male, had a lower level of education, resided in the northeast region and had an occupation carried out in a domestic environment. The latter may reflect the population's longer stay at home due to social constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There were a large number of second and third degree burns and, as a consequence, a high number of cases in which surgical treatment was required. Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. 2023-05 2022-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9026957/ /pubmed/35610078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2022.04.005 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Kobarg, Bianca Sandi
Guanilo, Maria Elena Echevarría
Bernard, Gustavo Peressoni
Barreto, Marcos Guilherme Praxedes
Vana, Luiz Philipe Molina
de Oliveira Junior, Joir Lima
de Araújo, Kelly Danielle
de Lauro Machado Homem, Ricardo
Marlene Tecla, Elaine
de Arruda, Fabiano Calixto Fortes
Adorno, José
Gragnani, Alfredo
José Lopes Pereima, Maurício
National multicentric study on the incidence of alcohol burns during the COVID-19 pandemic
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title_short National multicentric study on the incidence of alcohol burns during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort national multicentric study on the incidence of alcohol burns during the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9026957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35610078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2022.04.005
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