[Evaluation of the outpatient treatment of burns in children].

Outpatient treatment of burns and scalds has been evaluated at the Paediatric Emergency Unit of the Children's Hospital in Trieste. 183 children aged 0-15 years were treated by occlusive topical medication; in all cases control after three and twelve months was performed. No toxic symptomatology due to topical medication was observed. In four children local infection was resolved by topical aminoglycosides; in other four cases general antibiotics had to be administered because of isolate fever. Keloids resulted in 6 cases, 5 of them in the group of 32 children in which base treatment had to be integrated with other topical therapy because of early complications.