Autopsy Based Study on Female Victims of Burn Injury with Special Reference to Period of Survival.

Burn injury is one of the most common causes of unnatural death worldwide. While survival after occurrence of burn injury has drastically increased in past decades especially in developed countries, it has not made an impact in developing countries like India till now. Though both males and females may be victims of burn, females are more susceptible as they are more involved in household activities. Victims may die due to neurogenic shock, hypovolemic shock, suffocation, sepsis, renal failure, electrolyte imbalance and other reasons. Some victims die within short time and some survive longer. In this study we have tried to highlight period of survival and its relation with total body surface area (tbsa) involved among different age groups of 115 female victims of burn injury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]