Abstract
A 5–year material comprising 1326 in-patients from the Burns Unit, Kommunehospitalet. Copenhagen, is presented. This Unit admits all patients with burns from the municipality of Copenhagen (1136) as well as severe burn cases from other parts of Denmark (190). In addition, the Unit includes an out-patient clinic. The total annual number of patients has been fairly constant, while the proportion of patients from other parts of Denmark has increased considerably through the 5 years. The composition of the material in respect to sex, age, cause of burn, and place of accident is compared with the authors' previous paper on the “Total number of burn injuries in a Scandinavian population”. The marked differences between a material composed exclusively of in-patients and a material comprising also out-patients are discussed. Tables V and VI list the material by age, sex, extent of burn, and mortality in the various groups. Only 209 patients (one-sixth) had burns exceeding 10% of the body surface (Fig. 3). The dep...
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