TY - JOUR T1 - One pediatric burn unit's experience with sleepwear related injuries JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 313 LP - 316 DO - 10.1136/ip.4.4.313 VL - 4 IS - 4 AU - Elizabeth McLoughlin AU - Nicola Clarke AU - Kent Stahl AU - John D Crawford Y1 - 1998/12/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/4/4/313.abstract N2 - Review of the records of 678 children with acute injuries referred during an eight year period to this burn unit indicated that flame burns from a single ignition source (50%) outranked scalds (27%) or house fires (12%) as causes of injury. There was no temporal trend in the rank pattern. The majority of these single-source flame injuries were severe and involved ignition of the child's clothing. From 1969 through 1973, sleepwear was the clothing involved in 32% of the instances. Since that time and coincident with promulgation of strict federal and state standards for flammability of children's night clothing, a dramatic decline in the number of children referred with injuries of this type has taken place. It is probable that the single factor most important to the decline, in our experience with these injuries, is lower fabric flammability but, because our data may not be representative, corroboration is needed before one can exclude factors such as altered garment design, fire safety related practices at home, or changing patterns of hospital referral. ER -