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Folia Medica Indonesiana

ISSN 0303-7932

Vol. 47 / No. 1 / Published : 2011-01

Order : 1, and page :1 - 5

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Original Article :

Evaluation of burn unit gbpt performance from 2006-2008. a retrospective study

Author :

  1. Iswinarno Doso Saputro*1
  2. Badriyatut Dini*2
  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Airlangga University School of Medicine, Dr Soetomo Hospital
  2. Department of Plastic Surgery, Airlangga University School of Medicine, Dr Soetomo Hospital

Abstract :

Burn injury is one of the deadly case remains a major health problem. The treatment is complex and best delivered in a specialist center by trained personnel. The facility that needed for the treatment of moderate and severe injury is not available in many centers. Survival is one of some criteria for evaluating quality of burn management which is influenced by some factors including age of patient, extend and caused of burn. The aim of this study is to obtain a comprehensive baseline data for subsequent review especially following the inception of a burn unit in the hospital and to analyze correlation to death due to extend, caused of burn injury. These two year (between October 2006-September 2008) Retrospective study of burn injured patient admitted in the burn unit GBPT Dr Soetomo Hospital. Data was collected from medical record of patient and was analyzed statistically. A total of 213 patient admitted in the burn unit Dr.Soetomo Hospital since that period 137 (64%) of them were males while 76 (35.7%) were females, giving a male : female ratio of 2:1. 189 (89.7%) patients were cured and 24 (11.7%) patients were die. The most common cause of these injury was fire 102 patients (47.9%). There were significant correlation between extent of burn to death (p=0.0001; r = 0.498). In conclusion, the incidence of burn injury from October 2006 to September 2008 at Dr Soetomo Hospital was 213 patients, proportion of death case were 11.3%. There were significant correlation between extent and caused of burn injury to death.

Keyword :

burn injury, burn unit, survival, burn management, Dr Soetomo Hospital,


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