Parents praise burns unit after amazing recovery of boy, four

Four-year-old Logan Adams suffered 33 per cent burns across his body and endured nine hours of emergency surgery and skin grafts at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital.

Logan's pyjamas were engulfed in flames after he and his six-year-old sister climbed up to reach a cupboard and accidentally turned on the cooker in May last year. He was airlifted to Frenchay's specialist paediatric burns and plastic surgery unit.

Logan, from Haydon Wick, Swindon, Wiltshire, spent the next five weeks recovering in hospital with a team of experts.

He spent a further three weeks at Frenchay after having more surgery to the skin grafts on his chest which started to tighten and restrict his movement.

Logan's mother, Denise Rendell, 29, said: "We didn't know anything about burns or skin grafts but the surgeons told us everything that could happen so we were prepared, which was a real help."

Logan started school in September last year, just a few weeks after leaving hospital, and staff from Frenchay's paediatric burns outreach team visited his school to ensure his after-care could continue.

Ms Rendell said: "We stayed in the parents' accommodation for two months, because it was important for me to be here for Logan."

"Logan was in theatre every day and had four operations in total.

"He spent so much time in bed unable to move that he had to learn how to walk again and is still having physiotherapy."

Logan started school in September last year, just a few weeks after leaving hospital, and staff from Frenchay's paediatric burns outreach team visited his school to ensure his after-care could continue.

Ms Rendell said: "We stayed in the parents' accommodation for two months, because it was important for me to be here for Logan."

Logan's mother spoke out after Frenchay Hospital was designated a specialist paediatric burns centre. The centre will treat children who have suffered severe burns and live in the areas covered by the South West.

Amber Young, clinical lead for Specialised Paediatrics at Frenchay, said: "Centralising this service means that specialists dealing with these rare cases can maintain expertise and provide high-quality, experienced-based care with a dedicated team purely for children with burn injuries."