Baux Score

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Baux score is a system used by medical professionals to predict the chance of mortality due to a patient suffering severe burns. The score is an index which takes in to account the correlative and causal relationship between mortality and factors including advancing age, burn size, the presence of inhalational injury. Studies have shown that the Baux score is highly correlative with length of stay in hospital due to burns and final outcome.The original Baux score was the addition of two factors, the first being the total body surface area affected by burning (usually estimated using the rule of nines, or calculated using Lund & Browder charts) and the second being the age of the patient.... Mehr