Experience with severe extensive blistering skin disease in a paediatric burns unit

• Published in: Burns Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 82 - 87
• Main Authors: Greenwood, J.E, Dunn, K.W, Davenport, P.J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2000; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Bullous diseases of the skin; Burn Units; Burns unit; Child, Preschool; Children; Dermatology; Epidermolysis Bullosa, Junctional - pathology; Epidermolysis Bullosa, Junctional - therapy; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Medical sciences; Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous - pathology; Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous - therapy; Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome - pathology; Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome - therapy; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome - pathology; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome - therapy; Vesiculobullous disorders; Burns unit; Vesiculobullous disorders; Children; Human; Bullous dermatosis; Skin disease; Intensive care; Treatment; Etiology; Child
• ISSN: 0305-4179; 1879-1409
• DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(99)00094-7

Vesiculobullous disorders are thankfully uncommon. A brief overview of the literature is presented together with our experience of managing these cases on a paediatric burns unit in the six years 1992–1998. The advantages of management on such a unit are outlined and include a facility for major dressings and frequent changes and a familiarity with fluid resuscitation in the child with major skin loss. The financial cost of treatment and rehabilitation of these children is high.