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The aim was to evaluate changes in patterns of injury and whether mortality rates have decreased.The database over 20 years from 1982 to 2002 and the 6 years 1997 to 2003 was studied.4523 admissions. 73.7% males, 26.3% females. Monthly and seasonal admissions showed little fluctuation. 52.8% in the 21–40 years age group, 19.7% under 20 years, 19.4% in the 41–60 years group and 8.1% over 60 years....
Objectives: To study mortality trends due to burns in Chile. Methods: Correlation, and descriptive study. Death reports from the Annals of Demography from 1954 to 1999, were analyzed and standardized rates of mortality by etiology, age and sex were calculated using regression models (Prais-Winsten) for each of them. Spearman's Rho test was used to show correlations (STATA 7.0 ( R)). Results:...
In 1998, India was the only country in the world where fire (burns) was classified among the 15 leading causes of death. High mortality in young married women from burns has already become an alarming and contentious medical problem in rural India. The incidences of burn mortality by age, sex, residence, marital status; manner and reasons have been reported only infrequently from the rural parts of...
This 2-year prospective study examined the epidemiology and mortality of 345 patients admitted with burn injuries. Sixty-four percent of all burns were accidental in nature and at least 25% were self-inflicted. The rest were due to assaults or had a doubtful cause. The median age was 22 years. Forty-one percent of the accidents were due to the fall of a homemade kerosene bottle lamp. The main cause...
Seventy-nine (8.4%) patients during June 1992-May 1996 (Group-1) and 68 (7.2%) patients from June 1996 to May 2000 (Group-2) who developed septicaemia at the burns unit of Al-Babtain Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Kuwait, were retrospectively studied and compared. The mean age of 26 years, male predominance, flame burns as main aetiology and mean burn percentage of =<40% was observed in...
The mortality rate of gunpowder explosion burns from fireworks factory accidents was high. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of different managements on outcome of these burns patients and to optimize treatment measures and decrease the morbidity and mortality. During the period from January 1987 to December 1999 in our center, 44 patients burned in gunpowder explosions died. Fifty...
This study examines the epidemiology and mortality of patients admitted with burns to a Red Cross hospital in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2000. Three hundred and eighty-eight cases were reviewed retrospectively (57% male, 43% female) with a median age of 8 years. Sixty-three percent were children. Scalds (44%) were the commonest injury followed by fire (37%). The median total body surface area burned...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology of burns due to gunpowder explosions in fireworks factories. Three hundred and fifty-one patients having burns caused by gunpowder explosions in a fireworks factory were admitted to our center from 1 January 1987 to 31 December 1999 and the clinical notes of 339 patients were available for review. Data on age, sex, size, depth and sites of burn,...
Epidemiological investigations of burn patient series help practitioners to identify factors that affect patient survival. Our aim was to contribute to the body of knowledge in this area by determining how survival related to certain variables in burn cases. The records of 1083 burn patients who were hospitalised between August 1988 and the end of 1997 were retrospectively reviewed. Of this total,...
The success of treatment of childhood burns is critically dependent on how well the initial management is performed. In this case series of 695 children with burns transferred to the National Burn Institute (NBI) in Hanoi from peripheral hospitals, the initial management of each patient was assessed for the following initial management measures: removal of the cause and immediate cooling with water...
Burn injuries still produce a significant morbidity and mortality in Iran. This study was carried out to analyze the epidemioloy, mortality, and current etiological factors of 2043 burn patients who were admitted to the burn centers in the Fars province during 4 years (1994-1998). There were two burn centers in the Fars province serving 3 817 036 people over an area of 124 000 km 2 . The...
A total of 1063 acute burn patients were admitted to the Burns Unit of Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong between March 1993 and February 1999. There were 678 males and 385 females with a male to female ratio of 1.76:1. The median age was 13.1 year-old and the median burn size was 6% total body surface area (TBSA). Pediatric patients under the age of 15 year-old accounted for 550 (51.7%) admissions...
Sixty patients with moderate and severe burns were randomly assigned to receive topical silver sulfadiazine (SSD) alone (n=30) or SSD combined with cerium nitrate (SSD-CN) (n=30). There were four deaths in the SSD group and one in the SSD-CN group; more patients with higher risk severity survived in the SSD-CN group. Wound infection did not differ significantly between the groups. The rate of re-epithelialization...
Les facteurs pronostiques du patient brule sont analyses sur une population de 1929 patients par la methode statistique de regression logistique. Parmi les variables etudiees (surface brulee totale, surface de brulures profondes, surface de brulures superficielles, age, sexe, localisation des brulures, antecedents), seulement deux, la surface de brulures profondes et l'age, ont ete retenues comme...
The aim of this study was to obtain prospective information on suicidal (attempted suicide) burns patients admitted to the Harare burns unit during 1995-1998. Forty-seven patients, 42 females (89%) and five males (11%), evenly distributed throughout the period of study, were included. The median age was 25 years, range 13 to 50 years. Thirty were housewives (64%). Women married according to customary...
Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and tumor necrosis factor receptor I and II (TNFRI and TNFRII) were studied in 24 burn patients who had a total burn surface area (TBSA) of 50.2+/-20.4%. Immediately after the injury, both the TNFRI and TNFRII levels correlated significantly with TBSA (r=0.7344, P<0.0001; r=0.6074, P=0.0012). The TNFRI and TNFRII levels immediately after the injury were significantly...
A retrospective study was conducted on 3341 burn patients hospitalized in a burn care center in Tehran, Iran during 1995-98. The mean age was 20.4 years, and 43.5% of patients were children under 15 years old. The mean body surface area burned was 30.6%. There were statistically significant correlations between age groups and total burn surface area (TBSA) burned with mortality rate (p<0.006)....
Resuscitation from shock based on invasive hemodynamic monitoring has been widely used in trauma and surgical patients, but has been only sparsely evaluated in thermally injured patients, probably due to fear of invasive monitoring in this group of patients. However, end-point resuscitation to fixed circulatory and oxygen transport values has been proposed to be associated with an improved survival...
The purpose of this study was to record the causes and the magnitudes of burn injuries prospectively and to evaluate the outcome of treatment of patients admitted to the burn units in Harare. The median age of the 451 patients included was 6 years (range: 1 month to 71 years), 54% were female and 46% male. The burn injuries were caused by flame in 51% of the cases and hot liquids in 47%. The overall...
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