Table 1.

Demographics for patients with no inhalation injury and inhalation injury

	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

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