Research Journal of Medical Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6095ISSN: Print 1815-9346
Abstract
Burn fatalities are mostly caused by septicemia. Only if septicemia is discovered early enough‐which calls for an extremely sensitive prognostic indicator‐can burn victims be spared. The platelet count was investigated in this work as a prognostic factor. Seventy patients with more than twenty percent burns, regardless of age or sex, who were admitted to the surgical wards of Hospital. (Raj), had their cultures studied for this research. The cultures were taken from the burn region 48 hours after the burn occurred, then again after 7 daysfinally, at most, up to the 21st post‐burn day of hospitalisation. The patient's blood was drawn and processed simultaneously in order to separate the germs. For the first twenty‐four hours, all patients received topical antibiotics. In non‐survivors, a progressive decrease in platelet count was seen in the days that followed the burn until these individuals passed away. While a steady increase in platelet count was seen in survivors When post‐burn septicemia is detected early, a particularly sensitive prognostic indicator is a declining platelet count.
How to cite this article:
A. Kalaiventhan, S. Deepak and S.K. Sreethar. Assessment of Platelet Count AS A Prognostic Indicator in Burn Septicaemia: A Prospective Observational Study.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.36478/makrjms.2024.1.413.417
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