Hospital-acquired complications alter quality of life in adult burn survivors: Report from a burn model system

There are an estimated 486,000 people treated for burn injuries annually in the United States, leading to 40,000 hospital admissions [1]. With advances in critical care and surgical management, a patient with a burn size over 80% total body surface area (TBSA) confers a 50% survival rate, which has significantly increased over the past 50years [2,3]. However, in spite of improved survival, national data indicates that infectious and non-infectious hospital-acquired complications (HACs), persist [2]; the most common hospital-acquired infections include ventilator-associated pneumonia, catheter-acquired urinary tract infection, respiratory failure, and wound and graft infection [4].

Source: Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries - November 23, 2018 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Authors: Lyndsay Deeter, Max Seaton, Gretchen J. Carrougher, Kara McMullen, Samuel P. Mandell, Dagmar Amtmann, Nicole S. Gibran Source Type: research