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Prevention Care After care Quality of life Dutch Burns Foundation Rob Baardse Focus: - Prevention of burns, burn care, quality of life, - National fire prevention projects Dutch Burns Foundation Incident
Dutch Burns Foundation Netherlands people km²
Dutch Burns Foundation Netherlands people km² Each year,11,000 people are treated for burn injuries in Emergency Departments 9,600 accidents are home related 7,020 of the treated victims have more severe burns (2nd degree or deeper)
Dutch Burns Foundation Netherlands people km² Hospital admissions (p. year) 2003: : : : : : : : – New hospitalizations
Dutch Burns Foundation The Dutch Burns Foundation aims to prevent burns and minimize the consequences of burn accidents Mission statement
Dutch Burns Foundation To improve the prevention of burns To improve the treatment, nursing and aftercare of people with burns To improve the quality of life for people with burns Objectives:...
Prevention Care After care Quality of life Dutch Burns Foundation - Burns victim organizations - Burn centers (3) - Firefighters - Consumer safety organizations - Government - Universities etc… Working together with partners Incident
Dutch Burns Foundation To improve the prevention of burns Example oktober safety checks street tests posters flyers = smoke detcs. Research + ideas + firefighters + network + news = BIG campaigning / basis for political lobby
Dutch Burns Foundation To improve the prevention of burns Research leads to best practices
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Dutch Burns Foundation Causes of burns treated at the Emergency Department: Hot fluid 56% Hot object15% Fire, flame13% Explosion4% Chemical3% Other8% Causes of burns treated at hospital: Fire, flame 54% Hot object / hot fluid 32% Other24% To improve the prevention of burns
Dutch Burns Foundation To improve the treatment, nursing and aftercare of people with burns Age groupCauseIncidence 0-4 yearsHot fluid130 per 100,000 Hot object39 per 100, yearsHot fluid28 per 100,000 Fire, flame9.7 per 100,000 Explosion6.5 per 100, yearsHot fluid48 per 100,000
Dutch Burns Foundation The best possible care - Burns hotline Disaster management (political lobby) - Training for doctors and nurses (EMSB) - Training for specialized burns nurses (OBV) - Patient information systems - Research - Wound healing - Patho physiology - Psycho social - Epidemiology
To improve the quality of life for people with burns - Contact activities - Scarwars Scartrek - Scartrail Back to school interventions - Social scill training ‘living with scars’ - National burns survivor days etc.
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