Background: Length of stay (LOS) is one contributor in hospital costs, and attention has been paid to reducing LOS without compromising the quality care for patients. Hospitals with a burn center have longer average than hospitals center, which can result higher hospitalization costs. This study aims identify epidemological clinical factors that affect Methods: We conducted retrospective cross-...

background and objectives: methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) and coagulase negative staphylococci (mrcons) have recognized as the major cause of nosocomial infections that threat the burn patient’s life. the aims of this study were to determine the frequency of mrsa and mrcons and their antibiotic resistance patterns among burn patients in a burn center in ahvaz, iran. materia...

John R. Hess, John B. Holcomb, Steven E. Wolf, & Michael W. Cripps Department of Laboratory Medicine and Hematology, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Transfusion Service, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA Center for Translational Injury Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA Department of Surgery, Division of Burn/Trauma/Critical Care, Un...

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to determine current mortality predictors in our thermally injured population, to develop and validate a new mortality predictive score, and to compare its predictive ability with those of the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II) score, multiple organ dysfunction (MOD) score, and two burn-specific mortality predictive scores. ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence of complications in comparison with the benefits of tracheostomy in young pediatric burn patients (newborn to 3 years old). DESIGN Retrospective survey. SETTING Tertiary care burn center. PATIENTS A total of 1549 consecutive pediatric burn patients, of whom 180 were intubated. INTERVENTIONS Tracheostomy was performed in 76 children. MAIN OUTCOME MEA...