Mortality Associated with Burn Injuries: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study from Latur, Maharashtra
Keywords:
Mortality, burn injury, accidental burnAbstract
Introduction: Since From centuries, burn injuries are the major cause for human suffering and deaths. They are one of the oldest types of injuries that man knows, causing mortality and morbidity in humans time to time.
Methodology:This observational cross sectional study was conducted for period of one year started from July 2012 to June 2013 in burn ward of Govt. Medical College, Latur. Out of 302 patients admitted, 137 (45.36%) were died because of various degree burn injuries.
Results: 73.72% females were died because of the burn whereas males were only 26.28%. The male to female ratio was 1:2.81. 63.50% of burn deaths were from rural area. 80.29% burn victims were married. 96.35% of burns were caused because of flames. ≥80% TBSA burn was found in 53.47% female patients as compared to 38.89% male patients.
Conclusion: Burn injuries are preventable through awareness in people specially in reproductive age group women’s in which most of the cases were because of accidental burn while working in kitchen.Therefore proper educational and aggressive prevention program is needed to reduce the burden.
References
Lal S, Yadav GK, Gupta R, et al. Mortality pattern of burn patients admitted in S. G. M. Hospital Rewa: A teaching institute of central India. J Sci Soc 2012; 39:130-5.
Shinde AB, Keoliya AN. Socio-demographic characteristics of burn deaths in rural India. Int J Health & biomedical Res 2013; 3:227-33.
Gupta R, Kumar V, Tripathi SK. Profile of the Fatal Burn Deaths from the Varanasi Region, India. J Clinical and Diagnostic Res 2012; 6:608-11.
Zarei MR, Dianat S, Eslami V, et al. Factors associated with mortality in adult hospitalized burn patients in Tehran. Turkish J Trauma & Emer Sur 2011; 17(1):61-65.
Ibran EA, Rao MH, Ali SA, et al. Epidemiologic profile and outcome of hospitalized burn patients: 5 year experience at Burns Centre, Civil Hospital, Karachi. Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi 2012; 6(1):29-31.
Vaghela PC, Ahir GN, Patel MH. Epidemiology of fatal burn cases in G.K. General Hospital, Bhuj. National Journal of Community Medicine 2012; 3(2):326-329.
Ahmadijouybari T, Najafi F, Moradinazar M, et al. Two-year hospital records of burns from a referral center in Western Iran: March 2010-March 2012. J Inj Violence Res 2013; 6(1):276.
Karaddi S, Mugadlimath A, Babladi P, et al. Study of deaths due to thermal burns in and around Gulbarga city. Int J Med Pharm Sci 2013; 3(11):11-16.
Bhagora RV, Darji JA, Panchal DN, et al. Profile of Burn Cases brought for post-mortem examination at Mortuary of Sir T. Hospital, Bhavnagar. Nat J Int Res in Med 2011; 2(4):109-12.
Ibran EA, Mirza FH, Memon AA, et al. Mortality associated with burn injury- a cross sectional study from Karachi, Pakistan. BMC Research Notes 2013; 6:545.
Niekerk AV, Laubscher R, Laflamme L. Demographic and circumstantial accounts of burn mortality in Cape Town, South Africa, 2001-2004: an observational register based study. BMC Public Health 2009; 9:374.
Memchoubi P, Nabachandra H. A study of burn deaths in Imphal. JIAFM 2007; 29(4):131-34.
Tahir SM, Memon AR, Kumar M, et al. Prediction of Mortality after major burn: Physiological versus Biochemical Measures. Wounds 2009; 21(7):177-82.
Fazeli S, Matin RK, Kakaei N, et al. Predictive factors of Mortality in Burn patients. Trauma Mon 2014; 19(1):1-5.
Harish D, Kaur C, Singh A, et al. A comprehensive analysis of deaths due to Burns in a Tertiary Care Centre. J Punjab Acad Forensic Med Toxicol 2013; 13(2):68-73.
Akther JM, Nerker NE, Reddy PS, et al. Epidemiology of Burned patients admitted in Burn Unit of a rural Tertiary Teaching Hospital. Pravara Med Rev 2010; 2(4):11-17.
Hamayun M, Hussain Z, Khan D, et al. Epidemiology of burn injuries- Mortality and Morbidity in Hazara Division NWFP. Pak J Med Health Sci 2010; 4(1):46-8.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The authors retain the copyright of their article, with first publication rights granted to Medsci Publications.
