WORLD JOURNAL OF PLASTIC SURGERY

en Traumatic Brain Injury in Child Burn تخصصي Special مقالات اصيل Original Article BACKGROUND Burns are one of the most important health problems in communities. Traumatic injuries, especially Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) associated with burns, may increase disability and mortality. In addition to preventing burns, any action for a better treatment approach and early detection of concomitant traumatic injuries can reduce complications, disability, and treatment costs. We aimed to investigate the outcome of children with burn injury with and without TBI. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 392 children with burn injuries treated at Motahari Hospital in Tehran, Iran from 2018-2019 were enrolled. Patient demographics, burn injury information and TBI-related information including head trauma and fracture were recorded in a checklist. Patients were divided into two groups of death (24 people) or discharge (368 people) in terms of outcome and the underlying variables were compared in the two groups. RESULTS There was no significant difference between the mean age of patients and gender in the two groups. The difference in the length of hospital stay, inhalation injury and skull fracture in the two groups was not statistically significant. The mean burn severity based on Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) and the frequency of TBI in the deceased group was significantly higher (P=0.001). CONCLUSION The severity of burns based on TBSA and TBI is associated with increased mortality among children with burn injuries. The results suggest the need to examine children with burn injuries for TBI using clinical examination or imaging.   Burns, Mortality, Brain trauma 75 82 http://wjps.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-732-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Behnam Sobouti 100319475328460012897 100319475328460012897 No 1. Burn Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran Iman Ansari 100319475328460012898 100319475328460012898 No 1. Burn Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran. Soheila Naderi Garahgheshlagh 100319475328460012899 100319475328460012899 No 1. Burn Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran. Hossein Rahbar 100319475328460012900 100319475328460012900 No 1. Burn Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran. Arya Rahbar 100319475328460012901 100319475328460012901 No 2. International Baccalaureate Student, Ontario, Canada. Reza Alizadeh Navaei 100319475328460012902 100319475328460012902 No 3. Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. Hamid Karimi 100319475328460012903 100319475328460012903 No 4. Department of Plastic Surgery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Zahra Hosseini Rad 100319475328460012904 100319475328460012904 No 5. Motahari Hospital, Burn Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mohsen Saberi 100319475328460012905 100319475328460012905 No 6. Medicine, Quran and Hadith Research Center & Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mahnoush Momeni momeni.m@iums.ac.ir 100319475328460012906 100319475328460012906 Yes 7. Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Burn Research Center, Shahid Motahari Burns Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.