@article{ref1,
title="After freedom comes pain: increasing firework injuries at a regional burns centre following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions",
journal="Journal of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery",
year="2022",
author="Capitelli-McMahon, Helen and Magness, Charlotte and McCrossan, Susan and Austin, Orla",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Our regional burns service always has cause to &quot;remember, remember the 5th of November&quot; with both adults and children commonly sustaining firework-related injuries around bonfire night. This year, however, our unit saw a large increase in patients sustaining firework-related injuries compared to previous years, placing a greater burden on our regional service. To assess this, we compared the data for 2021 to the two previous years.   Our study included all patients who attended our unit with a firework-related burn in the 4-week period surrounding bonfire night (5th November) in 2021, comparing both outpatients and admissions to our service to the same period in 2020 and 2019.   Our unit saw a 160% increase in firework-related injuries in 2021 as compared to 2020; whilst that year's figure was likely affected by lockdowns, 2021 still represented a 116.7% increase from pre-COVID numbers in 2019. 2021 saw 26 patients, 20 of which (77%) were referred on 5th or 6th November (see Table 1). In the same period last year we saw a total of 10 patients with firework-related burns, and 12 patients in 2019 before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and any associated restrictions...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1748-6815",
doi="10.1016/j.bjps.2022.02.070",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2022.02.070"
}