Septicaemia after burn injury: a comparative study

• Published in: Burns 2002-12, Vol.28 (8), p.746-751
• Main Authors: Bang, Rameshwar L, Sharma, Prem N, Sanyal, Suhas C, Najjadah, Imad Al
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acinetobacter Infections - complications; Acinetobacter Infections - mortality; Adolescent; Adult; Age Distribution; Burns; Burns - microbiology; Burns - mortality; Burns - therapy; Burns, Inhalation - microbiology; Burns, Inhalation - mortality; Burns, Inhalation - therapy; Chi-Square Distribution; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Infant; Kuwait - epidemiology; Male; Methicillin Resistance; Microbes; Middle Aged; Mortality; MRSA; Multiple Organ Failure; Pseudomonas Infections - complications; Pseudomonas Infections - mortality; Retrospective Studies; Sepsis - microbiology; Sepsis - mortality; Sepsis - therapy; Septicaemia; Staphylococcal Infections - complications; Staphylococcal Infections - mortality; Staphylococcus aureus; Statistics, Nonparametric
• ISSN: 0305-4179; 1879-1409
• DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(02)00183-3

Seventy-nine (8.4%) patients during June 1992–May 1996 (Group-1) and 68 (7.2%) patients from June 1996 to May 2000 (Group-2) who developed septicaemia at the burns unit of Al-Babtain Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Kuwait, were retrospectively studied and compared. The mean age of 26 years, male predominance, flame burns as main aetiology and mean burn percentage of ≥40% was observed in both the groups. Both groups revealed extensive flame burn, inhalation injury, intubation and difficult resuscitation as the risk factors. The proportion of satisfactory resuscitation increased significantly ( P