Prevent holiday burns, fires( I> Never leave a child unattended...),Health

• Never leave a child unattended in a room with a candle. A child should not sleep in a room with a lit candle.

• Do not allow children or teens to have candles in their bedrooms.

• Store candles, matches and lighters up high and out of children's sight and reach, preferably in a locked cabinet.

Loyola University Medical Center's Burn Center is a major treatment and research center for burn care in the Midwest and a leader throughout the world. A multidisciplinary team, which includes resuscitation, pulmonary support, wound management, nutritional support and rehabilitation personnel, provide care in the center.

The Burn Center has approximately 70 highly trained staff, including nurses, patient care technicians, service coordinators and service associates. The center is one of the busiest in the Midwest treating more than 400 patients in the hospital each year and more than 2000 in its clinic. Approximately 40 percent of these patients are children.

The Burn Center provides comprehensive care for adults and children with thermal injuries, electrical burns, chemical injury, frostbite, toxic epidural necrolysis, inhalation injury and complex soft tissue infections.

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Contact: Joanne Swanson
jswanson@lumc.edu
708-216-2445
Loyola University Health System
15-Dec-2003