title: Prediction of mortality in pediatric burn injuries: R-baux score to be applied in children (pediatrics-baux score).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  R-Baux score has obtained an acceptable validity and accuracy in predicting burn-related mortality. However, its usage and efficacy among pediatric burn patients has not been well documented. The aim of this study was to employ Pediatrics-Baux (P-Buax) score as modified version of R-Baux score in these patients to determine how it could be applicable in this population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Through a prospective study, 870 pediatric burn patients were enrolled. P-Baux and R-Baux scores were calculated for each patient and they were categorized to different groups according to these scores. Mortality and further death probability were measured for each subject and then analyzed by logistic regression model to reveal how they change in relation with age in pediatric burn patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  R-Baux score for 95% probability of death revealed a mean of 73 among patients of this study. Also P-Baux score was measured in these patients with inhalation injury which showed to be 55 for 95% probability of death. Results showed that age had a positive prognostic value in contrast to the negative prognostic value of Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) and inhalation injury.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our analysis showed that in children under the age of 15 years, age has a positive prognostic value while TBSA and inhalation injuries had negative prognostic values in relation to mortality. Hence, in contrast to the adult population, burn injury related mortality may be predicted by modified R-Baux score as (TBSA - age + [18×R]) which could be named as P-Baux score.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Motahari Burn Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Karimi
authors.forename: Seyed-Abbas
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Motevalian
authors.forename: Amirhossein
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rabbani
authors.forename: Amir-Reza
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Motabar
authors.forename: Mahtab
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vasigh
authors.forename: Mansoureh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sabzeparvar
authors.forename: Mohammadreza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mobayen
keywords: Baux Score; Burns; Children; Inhalation Burns; Thermal Injury