Scald burns in XXXX under 3   years: an analysis of NEISS narratives to inform a scald burn prevention program.

@entity1 @entity4808
BACKGROUND OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence of @entity4808 for @entity1 under 3   years of age treated in US hospital emergency departments. To quantify injury patterns associated with @entity4808 to inform prevention recommendation messaging. METHODS: The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) coding manual was reviewed for cause of injury. Its database was queried to identify cases among @entity1 up to age 3   years old with a diagnosis of @entity4808 between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2012. The resulting data set was downloaded and case narratives were reviewed to identify injury patterns associated with @entity4808 . RESULTS: The NEISS query identified 2104 scald burn cases between 2009 and 2012, yielding a national estimate of 11   028 @entity4808 in @entity1 younger than 3   years old annually. The analysis of the case narratives resulted in the identification of six precipitating and/or contributing factors including: grabbed/pulled, cooking, bathing, consuming, appliance and other. CONCLUSIONS: NEISS is a valuable tool to identify scald burn risks. The NEISS data system provided an opportunity to identify and examine @entity4808 in @entity1 under 3   years of age. Interpretation of NEISS results is limited due to the lack of consistency and detail in narratives about the injury event. Nevertheless, the information that was available on precipitating and/or contributing factors suggests that caretakers should test the temperature of their water heaters, test bath water before bathing @entity1 and be made aware of risk of scalds from hot liquids so that they exercise close supervision of @entity1 .
