Table 2.

Characteristics of 140 patients admitted to the pediatric trauma intensive care unit for burns

Variables	Patients N = 140
Age (months)	24 (1 - 183)
Male	85 (61.8)
From the Porto Alegre metropolitan area	98 (70)
Mortality	7 (5)
Length of hospital stay (days)	8 (1 - 403)
Tracheostomy	4 (2.9)
Burned surface	12 (< 1 - 85)
Mechanical ventilation	29 (20.7)
Mechanical ventilation time (days)* (n = 29)	9 (1 - 732)
Inhalation Injury	21 (15)
Need for mechanical ventilation†	10 (41.6)

^*n = 29;

^†n = 21. Values expressed as medians (interquartile range) or numbers (%).