Scald injury from the Guthrie test: should the heel be warmed?
- The Burns Unit, Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, Central Manchester and Manchester, Children’s NHS Trust, Charlestown Road, Blackley, Manchester M9 7AA, UK;
- Correspondence to:
MrHassan
Department of Plastic Surgery, Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, Charlestown Road, Blakeley, Manchester M9 7AA; zahid.hassanman.ac.uk
- Received 20 January 2005
Abstract
A 6 day old boy sustained scalds to his right foot from application of a “warm nappy” to increase blood flow to facilitate heel pricking for a routine Guthrie test. It is proposed that active warming of the heel in isolation is not necessary in heel blood sampling.
Footnotes
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Competing interests: none declared
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Permission for publication of fig 1 has been obtained from the parents.
