| Summary: | Introduction: burns are lesions produced in living tissue by the action of various agents: physical, chemical or possibly biological, which cause alterations ranging from a simple change in coloration to the destruction of the affected structures.
Objective: to characterize patients hospitalized for burns at “Abel Santamaria Cuadrado” General Teaching Hospital.
Method: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study in patients hospitalized for burns in the Caumatology Unit at “Abel Santamaria Cuadrado” General Teaching Hospital during 2019. The target group included 110 patients and 73 in the sample.
Results: patients were predominantly male (53,43 %), ages between 20 and 60 years (36,98 %), hospitalized between 10 and 30 days (42,46 %), and lesion extension between 4 and 7 % of the body surface (32,87 %); 43,84 % of the lesions were caused by hot liquids, with a predominance of AB dermal lesions (50,68 %). Of the patients, 46,58 % received multiple localization burns, and in 49,31 % of the cases the treatment was medical. The main complication was dehydration (50 %) and only two patients died.
Conclusions: people between the second and sixth decade of life, as well as men were prone to suffer burns, mainly caused by hot liquids, affecting multiple localizations. Patients received medical treatment, suffering from dehydration as the main complication. The mortality rate was low in the population studied.
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