Mortality causes among burned patients of Sina hospital during 2019

Abstract

Annually, more than 300000 burned patients suffer and die from the burned injury caused morbidities, 95% of which, are from developing low income countries. According to the released data of legal medicine agency, burn injuries, follow car accidents and poisonings to be the third cause of death in traumatic patients. Sina hospital is the referral burning center of west Iran and serves the people of this region along with adjacent countries. Method: In this study, we have indicated the essential death predicting and affecting factors among burned patients in 2019 in Sina hospital, to provide the clinicians with a better and more in-depth insight into burned cases and reported the most important parameters based on data gathered from 1167 patients admitted to a referral center of Burning and Plastic Surgery in north-west of Iran. Results: the most powerful predictors of mortality are respiratory failure, hypothermia, decreased level of consciousness, respiratory tract burn, ARF, coagulopathy and iatrogenic infections.