Pseudomonas aeruginosa burn wound infection in a dedicated paediatric burns unit

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GENERAL SURGERY3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Armour et al. reported on 48 adult patients with gentamicin-resistant P. aeruginosa colonisation. [1]Compared with case-matched controls, this cohort required a twofold increase in grafting procedures as well as an average of 15 days' longer hospital stay. [1]eyik and colleagues reported the only specific series to detail the effect of P. aeruginosa in children. [2]They found a 65% frequency of wound colonisation, with systemic sepsis in 7.2% which, when associated with bacteraemia, was associated with an 80% mortality.Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCH) Cape Town, has the only dedicated paediatric burns unit in the Western Cape province of South Africa.It serves a population of over 5.8 million and annually admits an average of 1 100 burns patients.The frequency, systemic and local therapy, and morbidity of P. aeruginosa infection in the burns unit of RCH have not been documented previously.This study aims to address this deficit.