CAUSES OF BURN IN PATIENTS OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS OF LAHORE

Abstract

Background: Burns are the most well-known and wrecking types of injury. Patients with genuine warm damage require prompt specific care keeping in mind the end goal to limit dismalness and mortality. Huge wounds incite a condition of immunosuppression that inclines patient of burn to irresistible complexities. Confirmation proposes that the pathophysiological stretch reaction to serious burn injury holds on for a few years after damage. Objective: To determine the causes of burn in patients of private and government hospitals of Lahore. Methods and Methodology: This descriptive study was conducted in Lahore, Pakistan in 2017.The study involved 138 patients. Sample size was calculated from Rao soft convenient sampling technique was used. Inclusion criteria included burn patients of government and private hospitals of Lahore and exclusion criteria included patients having previous trauma and skin diseases. Self-structured questionnaire was used during this research. Results: The study related that the causes of burns are explosion, accident, fire, hot liquid, steam, electric current, chemicals, radiation therapy and acid burn. Conclusion: The study concluded that burns are mostly caused unintentionally and the main reasons are due to hot liquid and steam. Hands, face and arms are the most burnt areas respectively.