Burn Injury Study

2016 Burn Rate and Care in the United States

The below approximations were consequential from model and archive data accumulated from continuing countrywide health care and fire fatality studies, chosen state health record structures, as well as the National Burn Repository (NBR) of the American Burn Association (ABA). ABA NBR statements define admittances to hospitals with certain skills offered by “burn centers.”

Number of Burn Injuries Obtaining Medical Care: 486,000

This approximation is compiled mostly from national studies offering yearly assessments of hospital admittances and visits to hospital emergency departments. The approximation recognizes some burns may have been cured exclusively at hospital clinics, community health centers, or private medical practices. The burns treated at such establishments are thought to be minor paired with the understanding the size of the establishments are too small to offer trustworthy burn approximations.

Fire/Smoke Inhalation Fatalities: 3,275

The entirety contains 2,745 casualties from housing fires, 310 from automobile accident fires, and 220 from other causes. One citizen fire fatality happens every two hours and forty one minutes. The probability of a United States citizen passing from fire, flames, or smoke is one in one thousand four hundred forty two. Fire and inhalation casualties are pooled together as casualties from burns cannot constantly be differentiated from casualties from toxic smoke inhalation.

Hospitalizations Associated to Burn Injury: 40,000, with 30,000 from hospital burn departments

Over 60% of the approximated U.S. acute hospitalizations associated to burn injury were admitted to one hundred twenty eight burn departments. The same departments now average more than two hundred yearly admittances for burn injury and skin ailments demanding comparable care. The other 4,500 U.S. acute treatment hospitals average fewer than three burn admittances annually.

Survival Rate: 96.8%
Gender: 68% Male, 32% Female Ethnicity: 59% Caucasian, 20% African-American, 14% Hispanic, 7% Other Admittance Basis: 43% Fire/Flame, 34% Scald, 9% Contact, 4% Electrical, 3% Chemical, 7% Other Location of Incident: 73% Home, 8% Work-related, 5% Street/Highway, 5% Leisure/Sport, 9% Other