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Burns Reported to the BioSense System During the Independence Day Holiday

Description

Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworksrelated injuries occur during June 16-July 16 [1]. During the 2006 July 4th holiday weekend, thousands of people were treated in emergency departments (EDs) for fireworks-related injuries [2]. Over 50% of these injuries were burns, most often occurring on the extremities and face. CDC’s BioSense System receives near real-time data from >11% of total U.S. ED visits. Most data is sent to BioSense by state or local systems. The system includes >540 hospital EDs; 522 facilities send patient chief complaints and 182 facilities also send physician diagnoses.  BioSense maps chief complaint and diagnosis data to 11 syndromes and 78 sub-syndromes; burns are one of 13 injury-related sub-syndromes.

Objective:

To describe burn injuries reported to the BioSense System during the 2008 Independence Day holiday.

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