Taiwan Burn Score of Chen et al

Description

Chen et al developed a score for predicting mortality in a patient with thermal burn. The authors are from Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, and Tamkang University.

Patient selection: acute burn injury

Parameters:

(1) gender

(2) age in years

(3) burn index (BI)

(4) inhalation injury

(5) burn size (presumably based on second and third degree burns)

(6) ICU admission

(7) admission

(8) flushing time in cold water

(9) body site burned

burn index =

= (third degree burn area) + (0.5 (second degree burn area))

Parameter	Finding	Points
gender	male	0
	female	-0.075
age in years		0.041 * (age)
burn index		0.063 * (index)
inhalation injury	no	0
	yes	1.125
burn size	<= 20% BSA	0
	> 20% BSA	1.137
ICU admission	no	0
	yes	0.251
admission	direct	0.055
	outside ED	-0.279
	outside hospital	-0.249
flushing time	<= 5 minutes	-0.734
	5 to 30 minutes	-0.490
	> 30 minutes	0
head and neck burned	no	0
	yes	0.003
upper limbs burned	no	0
	yes	-0.029
trunk burned	no	0
	yes	0.367
lower limbs burned	no	0
	yes	0.106

X =

= SUM(points for all of the parameters) – 8.096

probability of death =

= 1 / (1 + EXP((-1) *X ))

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