Canadian Special Interest Group: Abstracts presented at the American Burn Association 40th Annual Meeting, April 28, 2008, Chicago, Ill.

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OBJECTIVE ESTIMATION OF SURVIVAL IN BURN PATIENTS REVISITED. V. Wong, M. Gomez, R. Cartotto. Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Toronto Ont.

Introduction: One widely disseminated approach to estimating the risk of mortality in burn patients is based on the presence or absence of 3 risk factors: age > 60 years, percentage of total body surface area (%TBSA) burn > 40% and presence of inhalation injury (Ryan CM, Schoenfeld DA, Thorpe WP, et al. Objective estimates of the probability of death from burn injuries. New Engl J Med 1998;338:362-6). Mortality is reported to be approximately 0.3%, 3%, 33% or 90% depending on whether 0, 1, 2 or 3 of the above-mentioned risk …