Garcia-Diaz, AntonioGacto-Sanchez, PurificacionDuran-Romero, Antonio JoseCarrasco-Garcia, SalvadorRuiz-Moya, AlejandroMolina-Morales, JuliaSanchez-Tatay, Maria-VictoriaGomez-Cia, TomasPereyra-Rodriguez, Jose Juan2023-05-032023-05-032022-04-260930-343Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10668/19675Background Burns are one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidity among children. This study aims to assess the epidemiology of pediatric major burns in a third level hospital in Spain to evaluate demographics, etiology, and outcomes.Methods A retrospective study was held by the Plastic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery department of the hospital. We included 147 patients under 18 admitted to hospital between January 2008 and December 2020 who meet the inclusion criteria: partial thickness burns > 10% total body surface area (TBSA) in patients 10% total body surface area (TBSA) in patientsenAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Pediatric major burnsEtiologyMortalityOutcomesMortalityUniversityChildrenScorereviewopen access10.1007/s00238-022-01957-y1435-0130https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00238-022-01957-y.pdf787635900002