The last 10 years in a burn centre in Ankara, XXXX : an analysis of 5264 cases.

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This is a retrospective study analysing 5264 @entity1 treated in the burn centre at G  lhane Military Medical Academy from 1 January 1986 to 31 December 1995. Our burn centre is not only the first, but one of the best established and supported in @entity233 . Our present study has the largest @entity1 group of other previously published studies from @entity233 . Of the total @entity1 studied, 4464 @entity1 had minor burns and were treated on an outpatient basis and 800 @entity1 had moderate to major burns. Although our centre is in a military area in Ankara, only 1047 (20 per cent) @entity1 were military personnel and the military-related burn causes comprised only 6 per cent of the total. The remaining 4217 (80 per cent of the total @entity1 ) were civilians. @entity130 were also more frequent in military @entity1 than civilians. Minor burns were most common in the age group 0-10 years old (40 per cent) and moderate to major burns in the age group 21-30 years (54 per cent). Scalds were the main cause of paediatric burns. Male @entity1 were dominant. The overall mortality among inpatients was 18.2 per cent and mean total body surface area (TBSA) was 57.6 per cent in @entity1 who died. 134 @entity1 demonstrated @entity130 and 82 per cent of these @entity1 died. The epidemiological pattern of our @entity1 is similar to that in other studies from developed countries, although some ethnic causative factors could be found. Our study indicates that emergency measures should be taken to prevent @entity130 at military barracks and industrial workplaces and scalding accidents to @entity1 at home and throughout the country.
