Abstract

Introduction: Ever since man discovered fire he also accidentally burnt himself. India has an ancient culture where the fire is worshipped traditionally. It is probably the potential fury of an unharnessed fire that made man bow before it. Burns are among the oldest injuries than man still suffers from. The burn injury can be one of most serious and devastating forms of trauma that man can sustain. A burn injury not only destroys the cutaneous barrier but it also leads to profound changes in almost all other organ systems so much. So, burn injury has been considered to be the “Universal Trauma Model”¹.  In this study 50 patients admitted in our institution under burns unit are accounted and a comparison is made among the survivors and dead patients. Results are been analyzed as a comparison between the two groups meeting our inclusion criteria and knowing whether there is statistical significance between the two groups. The success or failure of treatment of burn victim is difficult to measure. Survival or death is not necessarily an adequate yardstick. Death of the victim with a nearly total body surface injury and so deep as to preclude full functional recovery may not be considered as failure.

Materials and Method: This is prospective clinical trial done in thanjavur medical college and hospital and the study period extends from January 2015 to January 2017 .various clinical and haematological factors were assessed with the survival and the prognosis of the patient were predicted with the available reports.

Conclusion: Burn wound care is really a tough clinical problem which needs close monitoring and follow up. Here, in this study, an attempt is made to study about the factors that can be accounted to know the outcome and prognosis in burns patients. This study was useful in improving the patient care and providing the best and extravagant treatment for the patient whose factors were favourable for good prognosis.

Keywords: Degrees of burns, haematology, mortality, survival, prognosis.