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Table 3 Mortality among burn victims and its features

From: Epidemiology of burn injuries in Nepal: a systemic review

Study

Total patient number, n

Mortality, n(%)

Most common cause

Remarks

Liu et al. [5]

237

55(23.2)

Hypovolemia

Sepsis

No patients with >40%TBSA survived

Female to male death ratio 2.07

Shrestha et al. [8]

22

1(4.5)

Sepsis

Chalise et al. [10]

50

7(14.0)

%TBSA significant predicator of mortality

Dahal et al. [6]

100

21(21.0)

Rai et al. [11]

78

15(19.2)

Mortality proportional to increasing %TBSA burn.

No patient with >40%TBSA survived

Sharma et al. [7]

819

168(20.5)

73% of females.

Flame burn responsible for 95% deaths

  1. TBSA Total burn surface area