[Shock and septicemia as causes of death in burns]

The work analyzes findings of 315 autopsies of victims of thermal traumas. Shock and sepsis are considered as causes of death of the burn patients: their share in the structure of lethality, their part in different age groups of the dead, factors contributing to death from shock and sepsis. The use of catheterization was shown to reduce probability of death from shock, but it considerably elevated (in children and middle aged people) risk of their death from sepsis, the early sepsis included.