Sánchez-Hidalgo L, Acosta-Batista C, Lozada-Chinea M, Gómez-Zayas O

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: mortality in burn patients, especially in extensively burned patients, is still one of the most important challenges faced by health professionals. Objective: to describe the behavior of morbimortality due to burn injuries in patients admitted to the unit of burns of General Calixto García University Hospital. Method: adescriptive, longitudinal, prospective study was carried out in the unit of burns of General Calixto García University Hospital in the period from September 2013 to December 2015. The Spearman rho correlation test was used. Results: a predominance of male patients was observed, with 155 patients, which represented 60.8 %. Boiling liquids were the most frequent with 83 cases, which represented 32.5 %. 63 (24.7 %) patients died. A correlation coefficient of r= 0.386 was observed between life prognosis and discharge state. In terms of hospital stay, a negative correlation coefficient of -0.226 was found to be highly significant (p< 0.001). Conclusions: a highly significant relationship was observed between the discharge state and age, the percentage of burnt body surface, life prognosis and hospital stay.