Abstract:
This retrospective descriptive study aimed to describe the epidemiological characteristics of females, with a ratio of male to female of 1.67:1 and average age of 28.72 More than half (52.5%) were in the age of 15 to 50 years. Most of them were married (68.5%), average income was 7,293 Baht/month and 38.9 % of patients were admitted by referring to the burn unit. Scalds resulted in 140 admittants (52.3%) and flame burns accounted for 85 admittants (32.1%).The majority of burn injuries (64.5%) occurring in home place. Majority severe had moderate burn 131 patients (49.4%). The mean extent of burn was 19.2% of total body surface. Most accident occurred during 12.01-18.00 hrs. (28.3%) and the most frequent time of admission was during 12.01-18.00 hrs.(46.4%).An average annual admission was 53 patients per year and mostly in September (12.1%). The mean length of hospital stay was 28.9 days (ranged from 1 to 279 days) but duration of hospitalization was prolonged in severity and type of severe burns was 59.2 days while Chemical burn was 52.5 days. It was found that the overall mortality rate was 6.4% (95%CI: 3.8%-10.1%). Class burns of severity by major burns and flames burns accounted for 17.1% and 14.1% of mortality, respectively, and sepsis is the leading cause of death (76.4%). The relationship between type of burn and severity of burn was statistically significant (p-value<0.01) Length of hospital stay were statistically significant different (p-value<0.01) among type of burn and class burn of severity. In addition, the association between class burn of severity and mortality were also statistically significant (p-value<0.01). These findings could be applied as the epidemiological baseline data in planning for health care in burn patients according to severity and type of burn. Furthermore, the appropriate data collection should be designed for study in epidemiology of burn prevention in the future.