Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Characteristic	Number of patients
Total number of patients admitted from 1989 to 2009 (n)	5260
Total number of deaths (n)	145
Mortality (%)	2.8
Age of deceased (years)	7 ± 6
Total body surface area burned of deceased (%)	69 ± 23
Respiratory failure (%)	29
Brain death (%)	16
Shock (%)	8
Sepsis (%)	47*
Incidence of inhalation injury among deceased (%)	71
Time until death post-burn (days)	29 ± 50

Data presented as a percentage or average ± standard deviation.

* P < 0.05 compared with other causes of death.

Sepsis causes significantly more deaths than other etiologies.