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- Title
Evaluation of ABSI Score for the Prognosis and Length of Hospitalization of Burn Patients.
- Authors
Turhan, Nihan; Ciğer, Abdulkadir
- Abstract
The Abbreviated Burn Severity Index (ABSI) score is a scoring system that has been used for many years to determine the mortality risk of burn patients. Today, with modern burn treatment, a decrease in burn-related mortality rates has been observed in the last two decades, and the ABSI scoring system gives a mortality risk higher than expected. The aim of our study is to investigate the usability of the ABSI score in predicting the prognosis and length of hospital stay of the patients. In our study, the data of burn patients who were hospitalized and treated in our burn units between January 2018 and December 2020 were evaluated retrospectively by examining the file data. The effects of burn agent and the factors that make up the ABSI score on the prognosis and length of hospital stay of the patients were investigated. In our study, 331 burn patients were evaluated. It was found that the percentage of total bu rn surface area, presence of full-thickness burn and inhalation injury, among the variables constituting the ABSI score, were significantly higher in the burn non survivor group (p<0.001). Mortality risk of the patients were increased with the increase in the ABSI score (p<0.001). When the effects of the ABSI score on the length of hospital stay were evaluated, it was found that the higher the ABSI score, the longer the hospitalization duration (p<0.001). The hospitalization duration of the patients with f lame and electrical burns were significantly longer than other kinds of burns (p<0.001). We think that a new scoring system that includes the percentage of burn area, presence of full -thickness burn, inhalation damage, which are components of the ABSI score and patient groups with difficult burn recovery as well as the burn agent, will be more effective in determining mortality, prognosis and hospital stay of burn patients.
- Subjects
BURN patients; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; HOSPITAL care; BURN care units; ELECTRICAL burns; CHEMICAL burns
- Publication
Eastern Journal of Medicine, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 2, p244
- ISSN
1301-0883
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/ejm.2023.82609