[Treatment of burned children--current therapeutic principles (author's transl)].

This paper deals with the working plan of immediate care, parenteral nutrition and surgery in burned children according to experience gained in the treatment of these children at the specialist Burns Unit of the Department of Dermatology (I) of the University of Vienna. Features peculiar to this age group lie in the appropriate recommendations for shock therapy and prophylaxis as well as parenteral nutrition. The guidelines for surgical treatment of burns are basically similar in adults and children.