Temporal trends, predictors of blood transfusion and in‐hospital outcomes among patients with severe burn injury in the United States—A national database‐based analysis
Abstract:Background: Severe burn can be accompanied by life-threatening bleeding on some occasions, thus, blood transfusion is often required in these patients during their hospitalization. Therefore, we aimed to examine temporal trends, predictors, and in-hospital outcomes of blood transfusion in these patients in the United States.Methods: The National Inpatient Sample was used to identify severe burn patients between January 2010 and September 2017 in the United States.Trends in the utilization of blood transfusion … Show more
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