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Table 1 Demographics for patients with no inhalation injury and inhalation injury

From: Inhalation injury in severely burned children does not augment the systemic inflammatory response

 

No inhalation injury

Inhalation injury

Number

42

30

Age in years

8 ± 1

9 ± 1

Female/male

12/30

13/17

Percentage of TBSA burned

60 ± 3

67 ± 4

Third-degree burn percentage

45 ± 3

56 ± 6

Time to admission in days

3 ± 0.3

2 ± 0.3

Length of hospital stay in days

35 ± 6

37 ± 4

Mortality, number (percentage)

5 (12%)

13 (43%)a

  1. aSignificant difference between control and inhalation injury groups (p < 0.05). TBSA, total body surface area.