• Breanna A Borg, Michael Durgham, Christina M Shanti, and Justin D Klein.
• Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States.
• Burns. 2020 Dec 1; 46 (8): 1875-1879.

AbstractSink-bathing is common practice among parents. However, this puts infants and young children at unrecognized risk for burn injuries. As the only verified pediatric burn center in a large urban area, we treat burn patients from a large variation in socioeconomic status. This provides us a unique opportunity to examine sink-burn injury patterns, circumstances surrounding these burns, identify areas with high incidence and put in place an injury prevention outreach initiative. This retrospective study included patients treated for sink-bathing burns at our burn center in an 8.5-year period. Analysis of 71 patients revealed infants under one year of age are most commonly afflicted. Additionally, that families of low-socioeconomic means are disproportionately affected. Understanding the different circumstances surrounding sink-bathing burns allows us to be more specific in our community education efforts and efficiently guide our resources.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.

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