Survivors Versus Nonsurvivors Postburn

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether a panel of common biomedical markers can be utilized as trajectories to determine survival in pediatric burn patients. BACKGROUND: Despite major advances in clinical care, of the more than 1 million people burned in the United States each year, more than 4500 die as a result of their burn injuries. The ability to predict patient outcome or anticipate clinical trajectories using plasma protein expression would …