Abstract:
Background Burn is a skin and tissue damage caused by agents like fire, scald, electricity,
sunlight and chemical or nuclear radiation. Burn injuries are a major cause of death and
disability globally. In south region Ethiopia, the results of outcome of burn management and
associated factors among burn patients were not well explained. Hence, it needs more study.
Therefore, aim of this study was to assess outcome of burn management and associated
factors among patients visited Arba Minch general hospital burn unit, southern region, Gamo
zone, Ethiopia, 2025.
Method: institutional based, retrospective cross -sectional study design was conducted from
January 23, 2021 to April 30, 2024. A total of 291 burn patients were included using
convenience sampling method. The data was collected from patient card by kobo tool box
then import to SPSS 25 version analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression
analyses, along with descriptive statistics, were used to determine the relationship between
the outcome of burn management and associated factors.
Result Among 291 participants in the study, the prevalence of discharges with complications
was 36.1% (95%_CI; 31.1, 42.1).while 48.8% were male clients. Depth 2nd degrees burn
was [AOR: 6.765, 95% (1.838, 24.905)]. Extent of burn TBSA was >40% [AOR: 7.407, 95%
(1.074, 51.071)].Nutrition: Having malnutrition was [AOR: 6.364, 95% (1.191, 33.995)].
Epilepsy [AOR: 4.162, 95% (1.484, 11.678] and Fluid replacement [AOR: 0.315, 95%
(0.112, 0.883)] were factor associated with complications burn management outcomes.
Conclusion and recommendation
Generally the study finding was medium compare to other studies .The hospital burn unit
team focuses a lot of attention on managing patients who are malnourished, high percentage
of burn, deep burned patient, fluid replacement and epileptic patient to help reduce majority
of burn complication. Epileptic patients and burn victims are more common in rural than in
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