The epidemiology of patients with burn injuries admitted to Norwegian hospitals in 2007

Onarheim, Henning; Jensen, Svein Arthur; Rosenberg, Bjørn E.; Guttormsen, Anne Berit

doi:10.1016/j.burns.2009.06.191

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“…In a study from Marocco [16], burns related to the explosion of small gas bottles were described as a ''veritable time bomb in every house''. The male preponderance in our study was similar to others [5,[15][16][17][18]. The higher male to female ratio in our study reflects the higher expatriate male work force in the UAE.…”

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Epidemiology of burns in the United Arab Emirates: Lessons for prevention

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Abu‐Zidan

2014

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“…Burns are ranked fourth in all injuries, higher than combined incidence of tuberculosis and HIV infections [1]. The cost of burn treatment is incredibly high [3][4][5][6]. United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a fast developing country with a population of more than 6 million.…”

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Epidemiology of burns in the United Arab Emirates: Lessons for prevention

Grivna

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Abu‐Zidan

2014

Burns

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“…In one Lithuanian study, the incidence was remarkably higher (6.6 in 1991, which decreased to 4.0 in 2004) [57]. It was higher among children, even up to 8.3/10,000 for children younger than 5 years in one Norwegian study [56], and 8.5/10,000 for all children younger than 15 years in a Czech study [75]. A higher incidence has been associated with a lower standard of life and ethnic minorities [61,62,65].…”

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“…The mean length of hospitalization (LOS) in the general population with burn injuries was 7 to 33 days (median, 3 to 18 days) [1,2,19,25,29-32,50,52,56-58] and was reduced by 26% (1992 through 2007), as reported by one Norwegian study [56]. The average LOS in the pediatric population was 15 to 16 days (median, 10 to 12 days), and in the elderly, mean and median were reported as 18 to 26 days [61,65,67,73,80-84,88].…”

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Severe burn injury in europe: a systematic review of the incidence, etiology, morbidity, and mortality

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IntroductionBurn injury is a serious pathology, potentially leading to severe morbidity and significant mortality, but it also has a considerable health-economic impact. The aim of this study was to describe the European hospitalized population with severe burn injury, including the incidence, etiology, risk factors, mortality, and causes of death.MethodsThe systematic literature search (1985 to 2009) involved PubMed, the Web of Science, and the search engine Google. The reference lists and the Science Citation Index were used for hand searching (snowballing). Only studies dealing with epidemiologic issues (for example, incidence and outcome) as their major topic, on hospitalized populations with severe burn injury (in secondary and tertiary care) in Europe were included. Language restrictions were set on English, French, and Dutch.ResultsThe search led to 76 eligible studies, including more than 186,500 patients in total. The annual incidence of severe burns was 0.2 to 2.9/10,000 inhabitants with a decreasing trend in time. Almost 50% of patients were younger than 16 years, and ~60% were male patients. Flames, scalds, and contact burns were the most prevalent causes in the total population, but in children, scalds clearly dominated. Mortality was usually between 1.4% and 18% and is decreasing in time. Major risk factors for death were older age and a higher total percentage of burned surface area, as well as chronic diseases. (Multi) organ failure and sepsis were the most frequently reported causes of death. The main causes of early death (<48 hours) were burn shock and inhalation injury.ConclusionsDespite the lack of a large-scale European registration of burn injury, more epidemiologic information is available about the hospitalized population with severe burn injury than is generally presumed. National and international registration systems nevertheless remain necessary to allow better targeting of prevention campaigns and further improvement of cost-effectiveness in total burn care.

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“…Respecto a la edad, el tramo de edad de pacientes adultos jóvenes coincide con la mayoría de estudios epidemiológicos de la población de quemados [10][11][12] . El predominio de casos de quemadura en jóvenes adultos de sexo masculino encontrado en esta investigación coincide con lo relatado en otros estudios epidemiológicos que relacionan este alto índice con individuos económicamente activos, expuestos a situaciones de riesgo en el ambiente de trabajo y por considerarse menos cautelosos que las mujeres.…”

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