Abstract:In this study, while some children surviving severe burns had lingering physical disability, most had a satisfying quality of life. Comprehensive burn care that included experienced multidisciplinary aftercare played an important role in recovery.
“…Mortality after discharge is low in both children with massive burns followed up for 15 years, and in military personnel followed up for 10 years after combat-related burns (5% and 1.3%, respectively), and the few deaths are rarely related to the burn. 94,95 Although the results are interesting the low generalisability makes it doubtful whether these results can be used for predictions among people with burns generally, as the conclusions were generated by two highly-specific subgroups.…”
Section: Do the Effects Of The Burn Continue To Be A Threat To Survivmentioning
“…Mortality after discharge is low in both children with massive burns followed up for 15 years, and in military personnel followed up for 10 years after combat-related burns (5% and 1.3%, respectively), and the few deaths are rarely related to the burn. 94,95 Although the results are interesting the low generalisability makes it doubtful whether these results can be used for predictions among people with burns generally, as the conclusions were generated by two highly-specific subgroups.…”
Section: Do the Effects Of The Burn Continue To Be A Threat To Survivmentioning
“…Single-center studies of pathophysiology of pediatric severe burns (no control) 31 and with a 3-year follow-up of (with control) 6 have been reported. Although longer-term effects on health service use of adults hospitalized for injury (all cause) using population-based linked data has been reported, the representation of burn patients was small.…”
Section: Study Strengths and Limitationsmentioning
The systemic responses to burns (in particular, elevated levels of catecholamines and stress hormones) have been shown to have an impact on cardiac function for at least 3 years in children with burns. However, it is not clear if these changes lead to long-term effects on the heart. The aim of this study was to assess whether pediatric burn injury is associated with increased long-term hospital use for circulatory diseases.
“…6,7 Although there are mathematical models to predict outcomes, clinical experience with major burns over 30 years helped us in deciding our course of action, using the following processes/ considerations.…”
Section: Guidelines For Medical Interventionmentioning
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