Table 3.
Comparison among burn etiology.
| Flame N = 52 | Scald N = 61 | Contact N = 12 | Electrical N = 3 | Chemical N= 5 | p-value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depth of Burn | n | n | n | n | n | |||||||
| Superficial | 0% | 0 | 3% | 2 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | <0.0011 | |
| Superficial Partial | 6% | 3 | 23% | 14 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | ||
| Deep Partial | 15% | 8 | 41% | 25 | 33% | 4 | 67% | 2 | 0% | 0 | ||
| Full-thickness | 77% | 40 | 33% | 20 | 58% | 7 | 33% | 1 | 80% | 4 | ||
| Involving muscle | 2% | 1 | 0% | 0 | 8% | 1 | 0% | 0 | 20% | 1 | ||
| TBSA | 2.0 4.0 10.0 (9.2±11.9) | 3.0 5.0 10.0 (7.4±6.5) | 2.0 2.0 5.5 (5.2±5.9) | 2.0 2.0 5.0 (4.0±3.5) | 1.0 1.0 1.0 (1.0±0.0) | 0.0042 | ||||||
| Length of Stay | 15.0 24.0 38.5 (44.2±57.8) | 6.0 11.0 19.0 (15.6±15.1) | 15.2 30.0 47.8 (34.8±22.5) | 11.0 11.0 26.5 (21.3±17.9) | 8.0 14.0 25.0 (16.2±9.9) | <0.0011 | ||||||
a, b, and c represent the lower quartile a, the median b, and the upper quartile c for continuous variables, x±s represents X̄±1S.D.
1
Pearson test.
2
Kruskal–Wallis test.