Zhonghua zheng xing shao shang wai ke za zhi = Zhonghua zheng xing shao shang waikf [i.e. waike] zazhi = Chinese journal of plastic surgery and burns / [Chung-hua cheng hsing shao shang wai k'o tsa chih pien chi wei yüan hui pien chi]
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Zhonghua Zheng Xing Shao Shang Wai Ke Za Zhi · May 1995
[The characteristics of inhalation injury and pulmonary infection in burn patients and the influence on their mortality].
940 patients with thermal injury during the past 14 years were reviewed. Of them, inhalation injury was diagnosed in 75 patients, including 15 mild injury who all survived, 25 moderate injury, of whom 13 died with a mortality rate of 52.0% and 35 severe injury, of whom 31 died with a mortality rate of 88.6%. The data showed that 70% of burn that caused inhalation injury occurred in a closed space and 96% of which also caused facial injury. ⋯ The time and incidence of pulmonary infection in the patients with inhalation injury was earlier and higher than that in those without inhalation injury (P < 0.01). With similar burn area and age, the risk of death in the patients with inhalation injury was 17.2 times of the patients without inhalation injury (P < 0.001). Pulmonary infection further increased mortality of the patients (P < 0.001).
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Zhonghua Zheng Xing Shao Shang Wai Ke Za Zhi · May 1995
[An analysis of burn cases in the last decade].
The clinical data of 3,911 burn patients admitted to our institute from January, 1983 to December, 1992 were analyzed mainly on the distribution of age, causes of burns, burn area, combined injuries, common complications, incidence of burn shock, mortality and cause of death. Results showed that 91.7 per cent of deceased had suffered from inhalation injury, internal organ complications and systemic infection, suggesting that inhalation injury, visceral complication and systemic infection still remain to be the three major causes of death in burn patients.