Epidemiological and socio-cultural study of burn patients in M. Y. Hospital, Indore, India

Abstract

Burns represent an extremely stressful experience for both the burn victims as well as their families. An

Study of Etiological and Clinical Profile of Burn Patients

“…In study that the predominant age group affected was 16-30 (44%) irrespective of sex, followed by 31-45 (30%) age group. These results are almost similar to the ones as done by Ganesamoni et.al, 5 and Jaiswal et.al, (2007) 6 were also the majority were in the age group 21-30 year because in India major burns are flame burns due to house hold accidents more common in younger age group. The females are more frequently affected (52) than males (35%) with burns same results were seen with Ganesamoni et.al, (2010) 5 revealed the female and male ratio to be 1.7:1-a female preponderance in southindian study.…”

“…6 In victims with less than 10% of TBSA involvement, the causes of death include inhalation injuries and involvement of 'danger area' of the face. So mortality is high in burn cases of more than 50% burn due to respiratory complications, septic and hypovolemic shock.…”

Survival probability in self immolation attempters: a prospective observational cohort study

“…When self-immolation or burns occurs in aged people, it is deeper and more severe, and as a result, the recovery rate and duration of survival in aged people are less than other groups. [22,23] In this study, more than 80% of self-immolations occurred in women, and similar results were achieved from most of other studies in developing countries such as Uzbekistan, [24] Afghanistan, [25] India, [26] and Sri Lanka; [11] however these results were different from other studies that were conducted in most of the developed countries such as Germany, [27] Australia, [28] Finland, [29] England and Wales [30] wheremost of the self-immolations were in men.…”

Gendered pattern of burn injuries in India: a neglected health issue

“…[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] This is further explained by the nature of clothing worn by women in India such as saree * and dupatta † . Evidence points towards burns being one of the main causes of death amongst women in the age group 15-44 years.…”