JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v3i1.2215 jpsim.v3i1.2215 STUDENT CORNER Medico-Legal Review of Burns a Retrospective Study in Forensic Department of KEMU Lahore Naeem Mahnoor naeemmahnoor28@gmail.com * Shah Minahil Fourth Year Medical Student, KEMU, Lahore *Correspondence: Mahnoor Naeem (naeemmahnoor28@gmail.com) 15 03 2022 2022 3 1 69 73 16 11 2021 08 01 2022 Copyright © 2022 The Author(s) 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To analyze the demography, etiology and clinical features of burns reported at Mayo hospital; Lahore in 2019.

 Methodology

The data of this retrospective study were collected from the records of medicolegal clinic from January 2019 to December 2019, after approval from the institutional review board, and analyzed using SPSS v23. The difference of proportions between variables, was calculated by Pearson Chi-square test and Fischer Exact test at 95% confidence interval.

 Results

present results showed that males (60%) were more affected. Most of the victims were toddlers and children (50%), followed by young adults (23%) and then elders (17%). Scald burns were the most commonly acquired type (57%), then dry burns (37%), and lastly electrocuted burns (6%). 70% of the cases had 10%-50% body surface area involved, 23% had less than 10% of the body surface consumed. 2nd degree burns were most prevalent (75.5%). 91% of the victims were conscious and vitally stable, and were presented to the hospital within 1 hour of the injury.

 Conclusion

In view of the conducted research, it's evident that wet burn is the most prevalent type of burn, especially in children due to their mischievous behavior. Most of the cases are accidental.

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