Medisan (Aug 2018)

Survival to suicide attempt due to burns in adolescents

  • Leonor Ramírez Quesada,
  • Meilyn Ricardo Ramírez,
  • Augusto César Brooks Legeyre

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 7

Abstract

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Adolescents who have made suicide attempt caused by burns have been assisted in the Caumatology Service of theTeachingGeneralHospital"Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" fromSantiago de Cuba. The multidisciplinary team in charge of these cases has acquired experience, which has allowed them to carry out a group of actions to achieve in these patients a positive behavior to face life and; therefore, their survival when facing such attempts.

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