Factors Affecting Mortality among Patients with Major Burn at Intensive Care Units | ||
| The Medical Journal of Cairo University | ||
| Article 69, Volume 87, June, June 2019, Pages 1945-1950 PDF (521.82 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjcu.2019.54051 | ||
| Authors | ||
| MANAL S. ISMAIL, D.N.Sc.; YOUSRIA A. SELOMA, D.N.Sc.; TAREK A. SHAHEEN, M.Sc. | ||
| The Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Background: Critically ill patients with burn are a risk group whose outcomes are negatively affected by many factors. Among these factors are sepsis, total body surface burned area, and depth of the burn. Aim of Study: To assess factors affecting mortality among burned patients at Intensive Care Units. Patient and Methods: The target population in the study were the adult male and female patients admitted to the ICU and have burn more than or equal 20% over a period of six months. This study was conducted from February to August 2017 in the ICU affiliated to 185 Kasr Al-Aini Hospital for Burn and Emergency which consists of 10 rooms each room contains 4 beds. Three tools were developed by the investigator and utilized for data collection, These tools are: Tool 1: Personal background and medical data, Tool 2: Burn assess-ment tool, and Tool 3: Burn management tool. Results: More than half (55.2%) of the studied sample died and approximately half (44.7%) discharged from the ICU. A significant statistical difference was found between died and discharged subjects regarding length of ICU stay (t/p 2.04/0.04), body mass index (c2/p 20.395/0.002), TBSA (t/p 8.20/0.000), depth of burn (c2/p 32.709/0.000), occurance of wound infection (x2/p 20.73/0.000). No significant statistical difference was found between died and discharged patients regarding age (t/p1.7/0.08), heart rate (t/p1.96/0.054), gender (c2/p 0.017/0.897) and mechanism of injury (c2/p 0.508/0.476). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Burn; Critically Ill Patients; Total body surface area; Depth of burn; mortality; Infection | ||
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