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[Statistical analysis of 4,547 burn patients and the mortality in different periods]
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Burn injuries disproportionately affect young children, with thermal causes being most common. Burn wound sepsis remains the primary cause of mortality, despite no significant change in cure rates since 1983.
Area of Science:
- Medical research
- Epidemiology
- Burn injury statistics
Abstract:
4,547 burn patients from 1983-1993 were reviewed by analysing the general data, mortality, and the causes of the death, and the mortality of 606 burn patients in different periods from 1958 to 1993. The purpose was to present some statistical and epidemiological data. The results showed: The incidence of burn injury in children, whose ages were less than 5 years, reached 36.2%, and the causes of burn was mainly thermal injury. The total mortality was 3.2%, and the main cause of the death was burn wound sepsis. No significant difference in the relationship between the mortality and the burn wound area was observed in these burn patients. In different age groups, the size of III degree burn, which accounted for higher mortality, was much different. The incidence of burn wound sepsis, which was the main cause of mortality, was on the increase, as the analysis of 606 burn patients in four different periods from 1958-1963 showed. In regard to the cure rate, the improvement had not been obvious since 1983.