RT Book, Section
A1 Wang, Alvin
A1 Yeh, Ernest
A1 Hughes, William
A2 Cooney, Derek R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126793323
T1 Burns
T2 Cooney's EMS Medicine
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071775649
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126793323
RD 2024/04/24
AB There  are  an  estimated  1.2  million  burn  injuries  per  year  in  the  United  States.  Of  these,  50,000  patients  are  hospitalized  and  4500  fire-related  deaths  occur.  According  to  the  2012  Burn  Repository  Data,  encompassing  cases  from  2002  to  2011,  approximately  70%  of  patients  who  required  admission  were  men  with  a  mean  age  of  32  years.  Children  under  5  represented  19%  of  cases  while  patients  older  than  60  accounted  for  12%  of  admissions.  The  overall  mortality  rate  was  3.7%.1