id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_gknvxwzcujarnlkotki57xqk6u Tina L. Palmieri Increased Incidence of Heater-Related Burn Injury During a Power Crisis 2002 3 .pdf application/pdf 2402 323 68 Increased Incidence of Heater-Related Burn Injury During a Power Crisis Increased Incidence of Heater-Related Burn Injury Hypothesis: Recent power shortages in California resulted in rolling blackouts and increased utility prices. that the incidence of heater-related injuries increased owing to the use of alternative heating methods during the Conclusions: The number of heater-related burn admissions, as well as their magnitude, increased during HE POWER shortage in northern California from November 2000 through February decreasing over the last 20 years.2 However, the number of admissions to the University of California Davis Regional Burn Center and Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California Burn Center increased markedly during the winter Although the financial and economic consequences of the energy shortage have been widely publicized, the potential increase in burn injury and its To control for the potential effect of temperature on the incidence of heater burns, the mean California The greatest increase in heater-related burn injuries ./cache/work_gknvxwzcujarnlkotki57xqk6u.pdf ./txt/work_gknvxwzcujarnlkotki57xqk6u.txt