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A Computer System for Classification of Burns and Determination of Fluid and Nutritional Needs for Burn Patients

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Surgery

Abstract

Background: The assessment and classification of burin severity and extent is very important for proper treatment. A computer system to assess burns seems to be crucial for the determination of fluid and nutritional requirements.   
The aim of the work: The objectives of this work are to design a computer system to assess and classify burns according to burn depth and extent and to implement the designed system for the assessment of fluid and nutritional needs using a database system for the automation of the entire process.  Then test the computer system in reality through clinical application of the system on fifty patients with acute burn injury.
Patients and Methods:This study was divided into two parts: Development of a burn management computer system [BMS]to facilitate the process of documentation, classification, and management of acute burn patients. The BMS contains three subsystems: Database, Classification, and Management subsystems. The second part was the clinical application of the system on fifty patients to test the efficacy, accuracy, and applicability of this system in comparison to the traditional method used at our unit.
Results:Clinical application of the BMS has showed a reduction in the burn percentage calculation with 7.36%. It also decreased the amount of fluid calculated automatically by the system by about 7.28%, while the reduction in nutrition calculated automatically by the BMS was about 2.7%. Burn Management System has showed an overall shorter time in dealing with the cases.
Conclusion: Clinical application of the BMS showed an accurate estimation of the burn percent, accurate and rapid calculation of resuscitation fluids and nutritional needs, and easy electronic documentation of patients' data that required a minimal effort.

DOI

10.21608/ijma.2021.69708.1287

Keywords

Burn, depth, severity, Resuscitation fluids, mHealth

Authors

First Name

Safwat

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt; Beaumont hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Email

safwat177@yahoo.com

City

Dublin

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First Name

Reda

Last Name

Abo-Alez

MiddleName

H

Affiliation

Department of Computers and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

aboalez1@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Fawzy

Last Name

Hamza

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

saber.hamza@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Lotfy

Last Name

Nassar

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

drsalah.nassar@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Esam

Last Name

Taman

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn, Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

esam.taman@gmail.com

City

New Damietta

Orcid

-

First Name

Abd El Moneim

Last Name

Huta

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

a.hutta@gmail.com

City

Cairo

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Volume

3

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

24821

Issue Date

2021-04-01

Receive Date

2021-03-27

Publish Date

2021-04-01

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1,329

Page End

1,341

Print ISSN

2636-4174

Online ISSN

2682-3780

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IJMA_Volume 3_Issue 2_Pages 1329-1341.pdf

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https://ijma.journals.ekb.eg/article_166936.html

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816

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Publication Title

International Journal of Medical Arts

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https://ijma.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023