The Bradford Burn Study: the epidemiology of burns presenting to an inner city emergency department

Khan, Ajmal; Rawlins, Jeremy M.; Shenton, Anthony F.; Sharpe, David T.

doi:10.1136/emj.2005.027730

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“…Various international studies showed male predominance which is also in contrast with our studies. 8,[9][10][11][12][13] Most of the burn victims (66%) in our study were from rural area and this finding is in accordance with the various other studies. 2,3,6 This could be attributed to low standard of living in rural people and related factors.…”

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confidence: 91%

Clinico-epidemiological study of burns: our experience with 500 patients

Maske

Deshmukh

2016

Int Surg J

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Clinico-epidemiological study of burns: our experience with 500 patients

Maske

Deshmukh

2016

Int Surg J

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“…The age groups with the greatest number of burn patients in this study were 21-30 years (33.9%) and 31-40 years (20.4%) old. This finding matches data from developing countries and differs from data in developed countries, where the largest age group is children aged 2-5 years [3,11]. Males accounted for 72% of patients, which corresponds with most reported studies [9,12,13], although some controversial findings have been published elsewhere [11,14,15].…”

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confidence: 39%

Burns in Tehran: demographic, etiological, and clinical trends

2014

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Background: Burns are a major public health problem. They often require intensive care and long periods of hospitalization. In Tehran, about 5% of all hospitalized injuries are burns. There are no published long-term epidemiological studies regarding burn injuries of adults in Iran. Objective: To identify risk factors for burn injuries and provide a starting point for the establishment of an effective prevention plan. Methods: We analyzed the demographic, etiological, and clinical data of 1860 burn patients admitted to a major acute care hospital in Tehran between March 2010 and April 2011. Data were obtained from the registry recorded in Shahid Motahari Trauma Hospital and evaluated using a chi-square test. Results: Males were more than twice as likely to be burn patients than females (72.0% vs. 28.0%). Second and third-degree burns with a body surface area of 21%-30% constituted the highest injury reported (75.3%). The most common causes of the recorded burns were natural gas, gasoline (42%) and open fire (10.2%). Unintentional burns were reported in 85% of the cases, and 15% of the burn victims were suicide-related incidents; mainly among women. In 75% of suicide attempts, women set themselves on fire to commit suicide. The mean duration of hospitalization was 25 days and the mortality rate was 10.7%. Mean age of reported deaths was 38.6 years; with a mean of 30 years among women and 51.5 years among men. Conclusion:The group at highest risk was young men 21-30 years old. However, an astonishing finding was that 75% of suicidal-related incidents involved women setting themselves on fire. Those with the highest mortality rate were victims of burns with gas, gasoline, and kerosene; with a mean age of 30 years of death among women.

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“…This under reporting of the burn related mortality has major implications for planning, implementation and monitoring of prevention programmes. The descriptions in literature have also failed to present population-based mortality statistics limiting their usefulness to either monitor temporal changes in mortality in response to prevention programmes or to compare mortality across different geographic regions [16][17][18][19][20]. On the other hand studies that do report population-based statistics have suffered from a lack of consistency in presenting patient demographics, injury characteristics as well as age-and gender-specific injury rates [17,[21][22][23].…”

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confidence: 90%