Background: Infection is the greatest cause of mortality in burn patients. As our population ages, the need to care for elderly burn patients will increase, and with it our understanding of how infection affects older patients with burn injuries. This article presents a review of the available literature on the effect of aging on the physiologic response to burns, of the known effects of infection in the elder population, and of the contribution of underlying medical comorbidities to the outcomes for the elderly burn patient. The potential for more serious outcomes from multi-drug resistance in the elder population is also discussed.

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老年烧伤患者的感染：我们知道什么？

背景：感染是烧伤患者死亡的最大原因。随着我们的人口老龄化，对老年烧伤患者的护理需求将会增加，因此我们对感染如何影响烧伤老年患者的了解也会增加。本文综述了有关衰老对烧伤生理反应的影响、感染对老年人群的已知影响以及潜在合并症对老年烧伤患者预后的影响的现有文献的综述。还讨论了老年人群中多重耐药性导致更严重后果的可能性。