[Anesthesia in severely burnt patients: a 10-year experience].

A retrospective study of our anaesthesiologic activity during the decade 1982-1991 concerning 314 severely burned patients (53.4% of all the hospitalizations) submitted to escharrectomy with cutaneous grafts showed a greatest incidence in 1990 (19.5% of all the interventions) mostly for 12 to 60 year-old patients. In 51% of all cases, patients had burns over less than 30% of the body surface. 76% got a combined general anaesthesia mainly by isoflurane (68%) and 24%, especially 0 to 12 year-old patients (63.1%), a monopharmacological anaesthesia by ketamine.