• Sarvnaz Sepehripour, Sirisha Duggineni, Somaya Shahsavari, and Baljit Dheansa.
• Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, United Kingdom. Electronic address: sarvnazsepehri@googlemail.com.
• Burns. 2018 Sep 1; 44 (6): 1446-1450.

IntroductionBurn injuries commonly occur in vulnerable age and social groups. Previous research has shown that frailty may represent a more important marker of adverse outcome in healthcare rather than chronological age (Roberts et al., 2012). In this paper we determined the relationship between burn injury, frailty, co-morbidities and long-term survival.MethodologyRetrospective data collection from patients aged 75 with burns injuries, treated and discharged at Queen Victoria Hospital. The Clinical Frailty Scale (Rockwood et al., 2005) was used to calculate frailty at the time of admission. The expected mortality age (life expectancy) of deceased patients was obtained from two survival predictors.ResultsThe data shows a statistically significant correlation between frailty score and complications and a statistically significant correlation between total body surface area percentage and complications. No significant difference was found between expected and observed age of death or life expectancy amongst the deceased (p value of 0.109).ConclusionsBased on the data from our unit, sustaining a burn as an elderly person does not reduce life expectancy. Medical and surgical complications, immediate, early and late, although higher with greater frailty and TBSA of burn, but do not adversely affect survival in this population.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.

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