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Critical Care in Severely Burned Patients

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2023) | Viewed by 2724

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Department of Surgery, Burn Center, Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Seoul 150-030, Korea
Interests: acute management; skin graft; critical care; wound management; sepsis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Severely burned patients are serious and is increasing in the medical field. Various complications such as sepsis, AKI, and ARDS cause life-devasating damage. Despite the tremendous efforts of academic researchers and medical community, no general solution has yet been found to restrict severe burn patients. Therefore, a new strategy for managing the complications of severe burn patients, various approaches to treatment methods and predictors for severe complications is urgently needed. This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of severely burned patients and their applications. This special issue aims to provide selected contributions to advances in a variety of fields, including the diagnosis of severe burns, vasrious predictors of AKI, ARDS, and inhalational injury, and validation of sepsis-3. 

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Validation of sepsis–3;
  • Varisous predicotrs of AKI;
  • Usefullness of inhalation definition;
  • Nutritional supports and predictors in Severely Burned patients;
  • Epidemiology of severely burned patients;
  • Future perspectives for severely burned patients;
  • The cause of sepsis from various origins;
  • Role of antimicrobial materials for infection.

Dr. Dohern Kym
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • severely burned patients
  • Sepsis
  • predictors
  • mortality
  • trauma

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Article
Comparative Analysis of Composite Mortality Prediction Scores in Intensive Care Burn Patients
by Doha Obed, Mustafa Salim, Nadjib Dastagir, Samuel Knoedler, Khaled Dastagir, Adriana C. Panayi and Peter M. Vogt
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 12321; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912321 - 28 Sep 2022
Cited by 12 | Viewed by 2204
Abstract
Multiple outcome scoring models have been used in predicting mortality in burn patients. In this study, we compared the accuracy of five established models in predicting outcomes in burn patients admitted to the intensive care unit and assessed risk factors associated with mortality. [...] Read more.
Multiple outcome scoring models have been used in predicting mortality in burn patients. In this study, we compared the accuracy of five established models in predicting outcomes in burn patients admitted to the intensive care unit and assessed risk factors associated with mortality. Intensive care burn patients admitted between March 2007 and December 2020 with total body surface area (TBSA) affected ≥ 10% were analyzed. Multivariate analysis was conducted to examine variables associated with mortality. The ABSI, Ryan, BOBI, revised Baux and BUMP scores were analyzed by receiver operating characteristics. A total of 617 patients were included. Morality was 14.4%, with non-survivors being significantly older, male, and having experienced domestic burns. Multivariate analysis identified age, TBSA, full-thickness burns and renal insufficiency as independent mortality predictors. The BUMP score presented the highest mortality prognostication rate, followed by ABSI, revised Baux, BOBI and Ryan scores. BUMP, ABSI and revised Baux scores displayed AUC values exceeding 90%, indicating excellent prognostic capabilities. The BUMP score showed the highest accuracy of predicting mortality in intensive care burn patients and outperformed the most commonly used ABSI score in our cohort. The older models displayed adequate predictive performance and accuracy compared with the newest model. Full article
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