General Considerations In 2017, approximately 400,000 people were burned in the United States, of whom 3400 died. The epidemiological trends from 2001 to 2017 demonstrate that the U.S. population has increased from 285,000,000 to 326,000,000 people, a nominal 14% increase.…
Introduction Approximately 4000 burn victims die each year from complications related to thermal injury. Burn deaths generally occur in a bimodal distribution, either immediately after the injury or weeks later due to multisystem organ failure (MOF), a pattern covered in…
Introduction In 2014, approximately 200,000 deaths occurred in the United States from all injuries, and 31 million sustained nonfatal injuries. In a population of 318,857,056 persons, this represents a per capita death rate from injury of 0.063% (or approximately 6…