The FLAMES Score Accurately Predicts Mortality Risk in Burn Patients

BACKGROUND: The purposes of this study were to determine current mortality predictors in our thermally injured population, to develop and validate a new mortality predictive score, and to compare its predictive ability with those of the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II) score, multiple organ dysfunction (MOD) score, and two burn-specific mortality predictive scores. METHODS: A retrospective chart review of acute …