Can Plasma Cholinesterase act as an Adjuvant Prognostic Index in acute Burn Cases? A Prospective Clinical Study

Abstract

burn is a tissue injury from thermal application or from the absorption of physical energy or chemical contact. Millions of people around the world are hospitalized for the treatment of burn each year. The daily cost of care for a burn victim is tremendous. The economic loss to any nation is staggering. This includes painful and lengthy hospitalization, multiple stages of surgery, permanent disfigurement and disability, prolonged rehabilitation, loss of income. Also, job and enormous financial burden on both the burn victims and community. Burn itself and its complications can lead to permanent changes in patient life and that of his family. The importance of burn prognostic indices lies not only on the prediction of the outcome of an individual patient, but also on the distribution of the patients in comparable groups of severity for therapeutic purposes. Although the realistic prediction of the outcome of an individual patient is the first and main question of patient family, the quantitative measurement of a patient illness using these indices is of great importance for the burn center in deciding its therapeutic policy. The more accurate the index, the more useful it is for the latter purpose for these reasons.