Profile of Moderate and Severe Burns: Turkish Experience In A Tertiary Care Burn Unit

Year 2018, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 25 - 31, 01.01.2018

Yücel Yüce , Oguzhan Kilavuz

https://doi.org/10.5455/umj.20180221074628

Abstract

Introduction: We aimed to analyze the demographic and treatment outcomes of severe burn patients admitted to the burn intensive care unit and moderate burn patients admitted to the burn service and to contribute to the national statistical burn accumulation. Method: We retrospectively reviewed the information of 4745 patients hospitalized in our burn center between 2009-2017 from a prospectively maintained database. Results: 3583 75.51% moderate burn patients admitted to the burn service and 1162 24.49% severe burn patients admitted to the burn intensive care unit BICU . The ratio of female to male in burn service group was 33.4/66.6, while it was 25.1 / 74.9 in burn intensive care group. When we examined the causes of burn traumas, the first order received scalding burns with 52.65% n=1886 in moderate burns while it was flame burns with 54.22% n=630 in severe burns. Acinetobacter species were the most common pathogen in our burn intensive care unit, and Pseudomonas species were in burn service. The average hospitalization length was 10.09 days in the burn service and 11.82 days in the burn intensive care unit. Our mortality rate was 7.64% n=350 . Conclusion: This is one of the most extensive series presented in our country. In the developed countries, death rates in burn series have been reported below 5% in recent years, while our mortality rate was found to be 7,37%.

Keywords

Burn injury, burn intensive care unit, scalding burns, flame burns, burn epidemiology

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