RELATIONSHIP OF THROMBOCYTOPENIA IN THE FIRST WEEK AFTER BURNS WITH THE RESULTS OF TREATMENT OF SEVERE BURN PATIENTS

Đình Hùng Trần, Tuấn Hưng Ngô

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Objectives: Evaluate the mortality prediction value of platelets on the first week after burn in severe burn patients. Subjects and methods: Retrospective, descriptive study on 229 severe burn patients from 18 years old, no comorbidity and combined injury, burn extent ≥ 30% TBSA, hospitalized within 24 hours burns at the Viet Nam National Burn Hospital from January 1, 2021 - October 31, 2022. Thrombocytopenia was defined as platelet count < 150 G/L. The indicators were compared between the two groups: survival and mortality. Results: The mortality rate was 26.2%. On the 3rd day after burn, the number of patients with thrombocytopenia was the largest (66.38%). The number of patients with thrombocytopenia on days 3rd and 7th after burns in the mortality group was significantly higher than in the survival group (83.33% vs. 60.36%, p = 0.001; 56.67% vs. 13.02%, p = 0.000). Multivariate analysis showed that thrombocytopenia on the 7th day after burn along with increasing age, deep burn area and inhalation injury were independently associated with mortality; each unit thrombocytopenia on day 7th increases the risk of mortality by 3.09 times. The prognostic value of thrombocytopenia on day 7th after burn in severe burn patients was quite good (AUC = 0.72). When combining age increase, deep burn area, inhalation injury and thrombocytopenia on day 7th, the predictive value of mortality were very good (AUC = 0.92) with sensitivity 83.33% and specificity 91.72%, the difference is significant compared to each individual parameter (p < 0.05). Conclusion: The thrombocytopenia on day 7th after burn were independently associated with mortality in severe burn patients. When combining thrombocytopenia on day 7th after burn with age increase, deep burn area and inhalation injury, the prognostic value of mortality were very good.

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