Clinical Analysis of 5378 Burned Patients
- VernacularTitle:5378例烧伤病例临床分析
- Author:
Yuesheng HUANG
;
Yizhi PENG
;
Xusheng LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Burns;
Causes of death;
Early damage
- From:
Journal of Chinese Physician
2001;0(10):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the progress and experience in treatment of burn patients in the past 10 years (1993～2002) so as to bring forth ideas for further researches in burn surgery. Methods The general clinical data, complications, survival rate and causes of death in 5378 burn patients treated in our institute were collected and analyzed. The results were compared with those cases treated in our hospital during the years 1983～1992. Results in the past 10 years, there were no significant differences in the general clinical data including age, sex, causes, location, burn area and depth, incidence of combined injury and inhalation injury compared with those in the years 1983～1992. The survival rate of the cases in past 10 years was higher than that of the cases in the years 1983～1992. The main causes of death were organ dysfunction, inhalation injury and infection, among which the incidence of organ dysfunction stood foremost.Conclusions The results suggest that hypoxemia due to severe burn shock and inhalation injury, and endotoxin derived from burn wound still are the main causes of burn death. Protection of the body from early damage of postburn remains to be the most urgent problem in the burn research at present.
