Baux score

Q: What purpose the Baux score serves?

Answer:  Baux score helps to determine the mortality rate in burn patients. In case of a high degree of burn, survival may be unlikely and helps physicians as well as family to decide on further care. 

 Baux score = age + Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) = correlates with mortality 

 There is also a revised Baux score proposed which takes into accounts for the presence of inhalation injury.

Revised Baux score = (TBSA + age + [17×R]). 

R = 1 if patient has inhalation injury, and 
R = 0 if no inhalation injury

Revised Baux score of more than 140-150 corresponds with almost 100 percent mortality 


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References: 

1.  Osler T, Glance LG, Hosmer DW. Simplified estimates of the probability of death after burn injuries: extending and updating the baux score. J Trauma 2010; 68:690. 

2. Roberts G, Lloyd M, Parker M, et al. The Baux score is dead. Long live the Baux score: a 27-year retrospective cohort study of mortality at a regional burns service. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2012; 72:251.