Epidemiology of electrical burns and its impact on quality of life-the developing world scenario

作     者：Giriraj Gandhi Atul Parashar Ramesh K Sharma 

作者机构：Department of Plastic SurgeryPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchChandigarh 160012India 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Critical Care Medicine》 (世界重症医学杂志)

年 卷 期：2022年第11卷第1期

页      面：58-69页

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100210[医学-外科学(含：普外、骨外、泌尿外、胸心外、神外、整形、烧伤、野战外)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Electrical burns Quality of life Amputation Return to work Occupational therapy High voltage injuries 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Electrical burns are devastating injuries and can cause deep burns with significant morbidity and delayed *** data regarding the etiology,socioeconomic differences and geographic variation are necessary to assess the disease burden and plan an effective preventive *** severe injuries often lead to amputations and thus hamper quality of life in the long term AIM To identify the population at maximum risk of sustaining electrical *** also studied the impact of electrical burns on these patients in terms of quality of life as well as return to *** The study was conducted at a tertiary referral teaching hospital over a period of eighteen *** patients with a history of sustaining electrical burns and satisfying the inclusion criteria were included in the *** relevant epidemiological parameters and treatment details were *** patients were subsequently followed up at 3 mo,6 mo and 9 *** standardized Brief Version of the Burn Speci
c Health Scale(BSHS-B)was adopted to assess quality of *** analysis was conducted using IBM SPSS statistics(version 22.0).A P value of0.05 was considered statistically *** A total of 103 patients were included in the *** mean age of the patients was 31.83 years(range 18-75 years).A significant majority(91.3%)of patients were *** mean total body surface area(TBSA)in these patients was 21.1%.In most of the patients(67%),the injury was *** voltage injuries were implicated in 72.8%of *** the 75 high voltage burn patients,31(41%)required *** mean number of surgeries the patients underwent in hospital was 2.03(range 1 to 4).The quality of life parameters amongst the patients sustaining high voltage electrical burns were poorer when compared to low voltage injuries at all follow-up intervals across nine *** eight of these domains,the difference was statistically ***,