The danger of DIY Do-It-Yourself related full thickness burn injury: Case report during COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland

DIY injuries are a common cause of presentation to hospital around the world. During the COVID19 Pandemic there was a significant increase in the number of household injuries. Many of these injuries occur commonly in the home and they presented in increased proportions due to lockdown measures. Howe...

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Autores principales: Bell, Aisling, Christoduolides, Natasha, Ibrahim, Safwat, O'Sullivan, John Barry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9247220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35791432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burnso.2022.06.002
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Christoduolides, Natasha
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description DIY injuries are a common cause of presentation to hospital around the world. During the COVID19 Pandemic there was a significant increase in the number of household injuries. Many of these injuries occur commonly in the home and they presented in increased proportions due to lockdown measures. However during lockdowns people also undertook activities they would normally outsource to skilled professionals which resulted in unique mechanisms of injury. We present the case of a young woman with a delayed presentation of a full thickness burn following the use of an at home laser hair removal device. We will discuss the recent literature on the effects of the pandemic on presentations to emergency services, the surgical management of this injury and its’ reconstruction with biodegradable temporising matrix.
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spelling pubmed-92472202022-07-01 The danger of DIY Do-It-Yourself related full thickness burn injury: Case report during COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland Bell, Aisling Christoduolides, Natasha Ibrahim, Safwat O'Sullivan, John Barry Burns Open Case Report DIY injuries are a common cause of presentation to hospital around the world. During the COVID19 Pandemic there was a significant increase in the number of household injuries. Many of these injuries occur commonly in the home and they presented in increased proportions due to lockdown measures. However during lockdowns people also undertook activities they would normally outsource to skilled professionals which resulted in unique mechanisms of injury. We present the case of a young woman with a delayed presentation of a full thickness burn following the use of an at home laser hair removal device. We will discuss the recent literature on the effects of the pandemic on presentations to emergency services, the surgical management of this injury and its’ reconstruction with biodegradable temporising matrix. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-10 2022-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9247220/ /pubmed/35791432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burnso.2022.06.002 Text en © 2022 The Authors 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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