Authors: Zoltán Péter Imre Mező József Varga Irén Erdei János Hunyadi István Juhász
Publish Date: 2014/06/20
Volume: 37, Issue: 10, Pages: 543-546
Abstract
Though sustaining burn injury requiring hospital admission is not too common there are patients who happen to return to the burn unit with a new injury Our aim was to characterise the repeatedly burned patients and their cases The question was whether we can detect an objective reason for this higher susceptibility for burn injuriesAlcohol consumption was found in 12 of 35 cases 34 in group A and in 6 of 168 cases in group B 36 p 0001 In 25 of 35 cases surgery was neeeded because of deep burns 71 and this ratio was 44 in the control B group in 74 from 168 cases p = 0005 Average length of hospital stay was 1343 days 95 CI 1103–1583 in group A and 818 days 95 CI 727–91 in group B p 0001 Neurological disease—mostly epilepsy—was found in 7 cases of 35 in group A 20 whereas in 14 cases of 168 in group B 83 p = 0061Our data show that among repetitively burned patients there are more alcohol abusers more patients with deep burns who need surgery and that their average stay in the hospital is longer These patients also have a neurologic illness epilepsy more frequently although this difference was not statistically significant
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