A comparative description of dynamics of metabolic response indexes in the phases of burn disease course depending on terms of the onset of surgical intervention.

Abstract

A question of possibilities of influence on decline of progressing systemic response on the burn trauma remains open, despite actuality and active study of this problem. The aim of this work was carrying out a comparative description of dynamics of metabolic response indexes in the phases of burn disease (BD) course depending on terms of the beginning of the surgical intervention. Рatients with a thermal trauma were inspected and analyzed in this work. All the patients were estimated for the index of the thermal defeat severity, the percentage of the area of deep burn, a general area of burn, the age of a patient and the presence of respiration system burn. According to these, all the patients were divided into separate groups of research. The 1st group included 46 injured with the index of thermal defeat severity (TDS) from 61 to 90 units. The 2 group included 29 patients with the TDS index over 91 units. According to the terms of surgical intervention, patients of these groups were divided into sub-groups: 1.1 and 2.1, where the first surgical intervention was conducted five days before burn disease; 1.2 and 2.2, where the first surgical intervention was conducted five days after of burn disease. The level of cortisol and glycaemia of blood serum of injured people on different stages of inspection were taken into consideration. The diagnostically-curative program was conducted according to the clinical protocol of medical care to injured with thermal trauma. Estimating the dynamics of cortisol level, there was a considerable increase of it over the first twenty-four hours in both groups, which preserved during an acute period of burn disease. In the patients of the sub-group 2.1, with the TDS index over 91 units, who underwent early surgical tactics, the further activating of a sympathic adrenal system on the 7th day after the burn (an increase in cortisol by 82% compared with the previous indicator) was noted. From the first twenty-four hours after the burn, injured people suffered from a stress-induced hyperglycaemia which developed in all research groups, the latter did not depend on the severity of the burn trauma and did not correlate with the cortisol level of blood serum. With the early surgical treatment of burns, a more rapid normalization of blood glucose level in patients of 1.1 and 2.1 sub-groups on the 5th and 7th day of burn disease accordingly occurred.