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

Abstract

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Psychiatric Disorders, Delirium and Mortality in Patients Referred for Consultation in a Burn Center: A Four-Year Retrospective Study

“…Second most common cause was scalding in women and other (electric/chemical) burns in men, and there was a statistically significant difference between the genders. Similar to our study, there was a difference between the genders in the literature (26,28,30) . When three studies conducted in Turkey were examined, it was seen that scalding burns (60.7%, 69%, 47.7%) were reported as the most common causes of burns (31)(32)(33) .…”

“…In our study, we observed that 33 patients (19%) died during the four-year period and the majority of this group was diagnosed as delirium (n=14, 42.4%). In another study with large sample of cases in which burn patients were examined in general, the mortality rate was found to be 7.4% (30) . Delirium can be seen in one fifth of burn patients (36) .…”

“…However, there is no gender comparison in these studies, and we believe that the absence of a burn intensive care unit in those centers and the referral of severe/complicated cases to other hospitals may have affected the causes of burns. In an other retrospective study, Yücel and Kılavuz reported that among moderately severe burns the scalding burns (52.6%) and among severe burns flame burns (54.4%) were the most common causes of burn injuries (30) .…”