Javaid Munir, Zulfiqar Ali Buzdar, Zia ul Haq, Muhammad Anwar Sibtain Fazli, Fakhar uz Zaman

Study of Age and Gender Predilections amongst the Victims of Burns of Domestic Violence

Javaid Munir, Zulfiqar Ali Buzdar, Zia ul Haq, Muhammad Anwar Sibtain Fazli, Fakhar uz Zaman



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ABSTRACT

Background: Human life from conception till death needs some sources of energy or heating mechanism to advance from a day to another in the process of livelihood. From innocent infants falling victims to fires, toddlers to scalds, youth to vitriolage and elders to enmity of a variety of sources or to their own debilitation bring them close to the fire source let them fell a prey to burns.

Aim: To observe the age and gender predilections amongst the victims of burns

Methods: The study was carried out among 250 victims of burns presented from December 2017 to August 2018 and reported in the Accident and Emergency Department of Mayo Hospital Lahore and filtered in Medicolegal Clinic of King Edward Medical University Lahore.

Results: The study revealed maximum involvement of pediatric and geriatric age groups falling victim to burn incidents. In an analysis as a whole almost 84% victims were belonging to these two extremes of ages. Gender disparity showed a slight difference of just 10% showing female preponderance being exposed to burns.

Keywords: Burns, Age, Gender, Variation, Disparity



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