A California family is coming to Shriner’s Hospital in Sacramento as often as three times a month for treatment of third degree burns they say their baby incurred inside another hospital. On March 28, 2012, Lylah’s parents, Tiffany Payne and Stanley Quezada, took the baby to Mercy Merced’s emergency room…
Back in August 2011, a grandmother’s summer holiday at a luxury seaside hotel in Great Britain ended in tragedy when she was scalded to death in a hot bath. Unfortunately, severe burns from scalding hot water happen too often among children and seniors alike. The worst part is that these…
A few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported that an explosion in a home in Fairborn, Ohio killed a 75-year-old man and caused debris injuries and severe burns to six others, including four children. The blast was so powerful that it also significantly damaged neighboring homes. Both the gas and…
In late September, a 13-month-old girl received severe burns from an accident at a Starbucks Coffee shop in Stuart, FL. According to the local sheriff’s office, witnesses saw the mother of Lourdes Marsh place the infant in a clip-on tabletop chair that had been manually attached to the table. The…
Here are just two more examples of families suffering the mental anguish of an injured child because of a single moment of carelessness: First, a toddler in a home outside Atlanta had to be flown to a burn unit at a hospital in the city after being scalded by a…
One of the most common causes of hospital admission of pediatric patients is burns. Most pediatric burns occur at home. The most common cause of burns in young children is exposure to hot liquids (scald injury) such as hot water. Contact with hot objects is the second most common cause…