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- Each year, an increasing number of children suffer from burns that necessitate significant medical care, often resulting in permanent disfigurement and long-term disabilities.
- Health care providers should prioritize both immediate treatment and the long-term rehabilitation outcomes for burn patients, focusing on preventing and managing complications like scarring and contractures.
- A multidisciplinary team is essential for effectively reintegrating burn patients back into their daily lives and supporting their recovery.
Article Abstract
Each year, more and more children acquire burns that require serious medical attention. A vast number of these burns lead to permanent disfigurement and long-term disability. As health care providers, focus should not only be on the immediate treatment, but also on the long-term outcome of these burns and the required rehabilitation that these burn patients must go through. During the rehabilitation phase of the burn, focus should be placed on how to prevent and treat several sequelae that include hypertrophic scarring, keloids, contractures, heterotopic ossification, leukoderma, and pruritus. One must also use a multidisciplinary team approach to help reintegrate the patient back into their environment.
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