摘 要: | In adults, burns of 40% total body surface areas(TBSA)or greater were virtually unsurvivable but a few decades ago.Now, more than half of the adult patients with a 70% TBSA burn survive. In children, the size of the survivable injury has increased so much that it is now possible to save a child with burns exceeding 95% TBSA full thickness.The decrease in mortality and morbidity related to major thermal burn injuries noted in the past decade is primarily due to improvements in four major areas.
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